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To: NOW who wrote (48911)	3/29/2006 11:13:51 PM
From: mishedlo	of 116555

Homeland Security to Fingerprint Sailors The U.S. Department of Homeland Security plans to collect digital fingerprints of merchant sailors arriving at American ports, believing that will improve security and allow more seafarers to visit the United States, a department official said. Robert A. Mocny, deputy director of the department's visitor technology program, said Tuesday that immigration inspectors at major cargo terminals would be given hand-held scanners that photograph a sailor and capture his fingerprints. The data then would be checked against the 1.5 million names on U.S. lists of terror suspects, criminal fugitives and immigration violators. Low-wage laborers granted visas and work permits in the Emirates must submit iris scans as part of their registration process. New entrants are checked against a database of those arrested and expelled from the country to ensure that deportees do not re-enter under false identities. .... news.yahoo.com What a waste of money As if any wanted criminal will be attemoting to enter the US this way. Are any more packages scanned under this act? No. will it do a damn bit of good. No. Will it get people used to being searched, interrogated and their movements monitored? Yes. Welcome to the police state.

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