Are all travellers into the US now required to get "fingerprinted and

KoKo

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Tue Dec-23-03 06:18 AM
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Are all travellers into the US now required to get "fingerprinted and

photographed?" Or, is that just for those immigrating. I just heard this on CNN Headline news. Did I miss another of Bush's new laws? Is this part of Patriot II that was passed in the night with a "voice vote?"

Geeze I can't keep up with them all! The report just said starting "Now" and I haven't watched any new on Cable in a week. If this is true for any tourists, what will this do to the travel business for international visitors. I must have heard it wrong.

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nadinbrzezinski

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Tue Dec-23-03 06:21 AM
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1. Alas you heard right

Here you go, the link to another thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=282077

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KoKo

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Tue Dec-23-03 06:53 AM
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5. Thanks for this link! I missed it, will read it. I think it's time to

leave the US. But, where to go? The long arm of the BFEE will follow you everywhere. To visit relatives I will have to be fingerprinted.

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aquart

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Tue Dec-23-03 06:22 AM
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2. You did not hear wrong.

Once again, to all those still hanging on by their fingernails in the travel and tourism industry, my heart goes out to you.

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DuctapeFatwa

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Tue Dec-23-03 06:22 AM
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3. Anyone who wishes to enter the US. Part of Patriot II

which passed the congress with only 9 nays, voice vote in the senate.

It is a very popular measure.

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KoKo

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Tue Dec-23-03 06:50 AM
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4. This is Popular? Fingerprinting? Does that mean Americans have to be

fingerprinted when we return from abroad? How could this be popular?

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ayeshahaqqiqa

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Tue Dec-23-03 07:23 AM
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6. I was fingerprinted

so I could work in a day care facility. I had to go to the local jail, and they so messed up the process that the FBI sent me back my prints saying they were unreadable. I had to go get it done again. It was embarrassing and humiliating. I'm wondering how many of the prints taken of tourists will be illegible like mine were.

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DuctapeFatwa

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Tue Dec-23-03 01:50 PM
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10. Yes. All aspects of the "war on terror" are popular

as will be those aspects that have not yet been implmented.

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rjbcar27

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Tue Dec-23-03 07:31 AM
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7. I won't be visiting the US again then.

I would object to being treated like a criminal.

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foreigncorrespondent

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Tue Dec-23-03 09:18 AM
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8. Neither will I, my Commonwealth counterpart.

I Just finished emailing my partner (Sapphocrat), who lives in the USA. I sent her the link to the thread in LBN, and I told her I will not subject myself to that kind of shit, period.

I am not a criminal, and won't be treated like one.

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KansDem

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Tue Dec-23-03 09:51 AM
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9. This will be selectively applied...

I doubt if the "Leona Helmsley bigwigs" visiting the US will have to subject themselves to a "booking."

"Welcome to the United States, Prime Minister. Now if you will just step over here so we can photograph and fingerprint you, you'll be on your way to the White House in no time!"

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