About 100,000 visitors a year from more than 24 countries where terrorists have been known to live will be required to give fingerprints, register with the US Government and detail their movements under an unprecedented plan announced on Wednesday.
Another group of nearly 100,000 foreigners already in the country to work, study or visit will also be required to undergo fingerprinting and photographing, in an effort to weed out suspected terrorists, Justice Department officials said. The system would be the first time the US has demanded fingerprints of such a large population of foreigners, and it sparked immediate protests from politicians, civil liberties groups and Arab-American advocates, who said it amounted to wide-scale racial profiling of Muslims and people from the Middle East. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/06/06/1022982744312.html ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
