Fingerprints and entering or leaving the country

[thewayne]

Apparently a pilot program started under the previous administration is deploying which will be scanning people's fingerprints as they are LEAVING the country. Supposedly they will only be scanning non-US citizen's prints. I'm sure there will be zero scope creep on this one.

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/104310,homeland-security-to-scan-fingerprints-of-travellers-exiting-the-us.aspx

And a man came to the US from Singapore to see family. He's a cancer patient and takes a drug of "chronic inflammation of the palms or soles of the feet and the skin can peel, bleed and develop ulcers or blisters -- or what is known as hand-foot syndrome." As a result, you can actually lose your fingerprints.

He's been on the drug for three years.

He was detained by Customs for four hours because they couldn't get a fingerprint from him. But he was eventually let in.

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE54Q42P20090527?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&rpc=22&sp=true

Comments

[silveradept]

Yeah. Zero creep, indeed. At least we don't have border patrols between states that require id checks and fingerprintings. Yet. Still, it's going to become very difficult to leave the country legitimately soon, unless you start planning for it years in advance.