'Immigration Control'

Kings from parallel street -

All visitors to the US now have a digital photo and forefinger prints taken. This system obviously requires a huge databank somewhere, but presumably it is a viable system of keeping these records available for cross-checking purposes. The imagination boggles at the logistics involved in collating the data from all international US airports.

Comment #1 George from Montana -

They say they do this, but do they?

A friend from a country that is known for certain criminal activities received a US Visa and was digitally finger printed and probably a digital copy of their photo was made.

However, upon entry to the United States, they entered without digital finger prints or photos.

So there was no actual biometric comparison between the person receiving the visa and the person entering the USA.

Brazil was supposedly doing the same thing to Americans (in return), however, when I entered Brazil (twice) there as no finger printing or special treatment for Americans.

Comment #2 Keter from the garage door -

Every time I enter the US I see the lines of 'aliens' as they like calling them here, being fingerprinted and photographed. I actually asked one of the officials once about this procedure and he was also a bit skeptical about the usefulness of it, I suppose because of the mind-boggling search and compare facilities that would be required to make it useful in any meaningful way. I suppose it is really intended to be a deterrent to would be criminals, but then like gun licensing, that has never worked, has it?

Comment #3 Tara from Somewhere cold -

My sister lives in a border state...Arizona...and she said that illegal aliens are a huge problem over there. Unfortunately, in their quest to come over to the land of opportunity, many of these people have died in the extreme heat of an Arizona summer. I think that's the saddest part of this whole thing. I know I'll hear you guys say..."then they shouldn't come over in the first place". My stink is that immigration is such a huge problem, why the heck isn't it fixed yet?

Comment #4 Conyngham from the windy city -

What I'd like to know is why the US doesn't have an option for retired people from 1st world countries who can prove that they have sufficient means of support, to immigrate here? The UK has what is called an 'independant means' visa. Seems to me that this is this should be the case here too. Why not?

Comment #5 Plums from the thrush tree -

Most countries are just opposed to the idea of immigrants flooding in, and this translates to an entrenched set of rules and regulations that rarely gets changed. Over the years these things are probably just ignored as a matter of principle rather than because of logic.

Comment #6 Two trips round the moon (62.163.146.135) - Sat May 31 15:11:06 2008

It is said that the USA do not enforce their immigration laws because immigration provides an abundance of uneducated workers, which is in the interests of capital, as it reduces the cost of labor and thus increases competitiveness of domestic industries on the global market.

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