Improved technology for border security
Published Thu, Nov 16 2006 7:11 PM
Technorati Tags: News and Politics, Immigration
U.S. border officials will soon be able to screen all foreign visitors against databases of latent fingerprints left by terrorists on weapons or in safe houses, according to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.
Mr. Chertoff said at a meeting of technology vendors this week that the coming deployment of 10-digit fingerprint readers at U.S. consulates and ports of entry was "exactly the kind of 21st-century tool that will give us a measure of protection at our borders that has never been dreamed of in the history of this country."
He said the new fingerprint readers, which will replace the existing two-fingerprint scanners starting next year, would allow foreign visitors and visa applicants to be checked "not only against our existing databases to see whether they have been here before under a different name or whether there is a criminal record in this country or internationally against them," but also "against latent prints lifted from around the world in terrorist safe houses or on battlefields."
Read more inThe Washington Times
It's a good improvement in the existing technology.
Now if we can only get congress to authorize the use of some old technology along the entire length of our Northern and Southern borders. After all, good fences make good neighbors. Even if the neighbors dog does dig under them.
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