Senate Immigration Bill Requires Fingerprinting

But, it forgets one big thing as the Gang Of 8 pushes amnesty

(CBS News) Foreigners leaving the country through any of the nation’s 30 busiest airports would undergo mandatory fingerprinting under an amendment senators added Monday to a sweeping immigration bill. Lawmakers called it a step toward a more expansive biometric system that would use identifiers such as fingerprints to keep track of immigrants and visitors exiting the U.S. Currently no such system is in place, something viewed as a security weakness, particularly because some 40 percent of the 11 million immigrants in the country illegally overstayed their visas and there’s no good system for tracking them.

“This is an agreement that we need to build toward a biometric visa exit system,” said Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who offered the amendment by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who was absent Monday. “Implementing this biometric exit system is long overdue.”

A full-fledged biometric entry-exit system is favored by many senators but was deemed too expensive and unworkable to include in the bill. Current law already requires such a system to be in place, but the Department of Homeland Security has not implemented it. Instead the bill seeks electronic scanning of photo IDs.

Sadly, this is one of the better ideas offered by Republicans looking to strengthen the shamnesty bill. But, exactly how does it reduces illegals to print visitors when they’re exiting the country throught the 30 busiest American airports? How about we track the hell out of them when they arrive?

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3 Responses to “Senate Immigration Bill Requires Fingerprinting”

  1. john says:

    we do track them when they come through with visas. 50% or so came with proper visas but are now out of status.

  2. gitarcarver says:

    50% or so came with proper visas but are now out of status.

    Which means they should be out of the country.

    Tell me john, are you against holding people responsible for breaking the law?

  3. Ooogling_Gumballs says:

    According to john, only women, jews and black people, GC.

    Why does it not surprise me that the idiots in Washington think the way to control illegal felons sneaking in to this nation, is to fingerprint people leaving the US?

    Like fingerprints are the new gateway border shield.

    Few years ago it was wireless cameras.

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