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To: Kona who wrote (47464)	3/15/2009 6:13:13 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 217836

There's potential for great inconvenience <Went to UK from San Francisco recently and they had passport scanners at the gate at the same time the airline agents take the boarding passes. The scanners had Homeland Security folks running them. The HS agents scan the passport and a monitor flashes a green OK response, > Our son has for years refused to go anywhere via the USA because of the hassle and potential for more hassle and because of their attitudes. He nearly missed a flight once because of some dumb security people. Imagine being "Jay Chen". You hand your passport over and it turns out that this guy jaychenstudios.com is an international car thief wanted in 10 states. Explaining that you are NOT that particular Jay Chen would not be convincing to the average TSA Brownshirt who would of course arrest you on the spot and cart you off for questioning. Eventually they would probably figure out that you aren't that one, but they might not because they might put you incommunicado without any of that silly British Empire habeas corpus stuff into a concentration camp at Guantanamo or a special rendition centre to keep you "off the books", never to be seen again. One of the "disappeared". Of course there is already the potential for that problem because they already check passports for wanted people. It might be worth changing name to some unique identity to avoid being confused with anybody else. Mqurice

To: Kona who wrote (47464)	3/15/2009 6:54:45 PM
From: energyplay	Respond to of 217836

If someones comes in on a 60 day tourist visa, you can put that in database. When they leave, you mark the database that they have left. Now, around day 65, you have a list of who has not left. So now you can send a letter to them asking if they have left. If they get picked up by the police, you can then let the police know they might be overstayers. This is done promply, in 3 to 6 days (ideally). Comming next year - The list of new visa overstayers will be compared with the list of new hires to see if anyone is dumb enough to use the same name. Then a letter will be sent to the employer.