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To: David who wrote (7511)	4/2/1998 3:19:00 PM
From: David	Respond to of 26039

Interesting INS stuff . . . Part 2 . . . Then she got into actual, verbal testimony. Here is some of that: "A year ago, more than half the citizen fingerprint cards prepared by outside providers were being rejected by the FBI as unreadable . . . . Today the [inhouse] fingerprint rejection rate is under 2 percent." Representative Mollohan of West Virginia (where the FBI has its fingerprint facility) was quite critical of IDENT (the other INS contract possibility on the border to catch immigrant smugglers) for its incompatibility with the FBI ten-print system. IDENT only uses two index fingers for its prints. Meissner: "[T]he question that has been raised, that you have raised about whether or not we should be gathering ten prints instead of two prints through the IDENT process is one that we are now looking at." The FBI "want us to look at the potential for gathering ten prints for the purposes of broader law enforcement. And we are now working to put a feasibility pilot effort into place, probably will take place in Arizona, as a matter of fact, over the next month or two to determine indeed whether we can gather ten prints. We very much see ourselves working in concert with the FBI on this." Mollohan: " . . . I'm glad you did not mention that we don't have enough people to take ten prints or enough time to take prints, because the amount of money that this chairman has put into this bill and the amount of people that we're bringing on line would argue against that." Get it? Political pressure to upgrade IDENT to TP-600 status. How many border offices are there, any way? Lots. Finally, and I don't think IDX is in this one, Meissner reported on the biometric green cards, that the INS would have about a 5.5 million replacement "laser" cards not in time for the October deadline -- they want an extension -- and 800,000 cards a year thereafter.