The issue of the United States fingerprinting visitors is a long awaited process. When a person or family enters the United States they are �guests,� and should and will be treated as a guest of �our� country.
Prior to 9/11 we were targets of some of our �visitors,� although we (US Government) decided to quietly observe, instead of taken an active approach. It�s sad that it took a tragic event to change our thought process. Today everyone has to suffer; visitors undergo tighter security, and citizens are awaiting the next tragic event. As you can see from this article, an official �watch list� can work, although in this case they were a little late. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040922/D858EV280.html Regards, MDF Quoting Scott Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 09:34:17 +0200, Lars Eggert > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > based on your signature, you're presumably a citizen of the country that > > has your fingerprints on file. This allows you - in theory - to > > participate in the changing of these rules by voting, should you not > > like them. Foreigners and visa holders that enter the US do not have > > this option. > > As would I be from "the country that has your fingerprints on file". > Mine are on file as well, for completely different reasons (but not as > the result of a criminal record.) > > Leaving one's fingerprints isn't a matter of political process, it's a > new condition of being a guest and visiting the United States. It's > simply the result of other people not having been good guests in the > recent past. It's also the result of the political process in D.C. > needing to make sure that all guests are treated equally (yeah, some > minor, niggly Constitutional issue prevents the government from > profiling guests entering the country or some silly issue like that. > :-) > > > -scooter > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > -- Michael D. Frisch Graduate Studies Computer Science & ALM IT Management 203-581-2860 (Cell) [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
