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    Sen. Sessions wants fingerprints for visitors entering and exiting the U.S.

    Sen. Sessions wants fingerprints for visitors entering and exiting the U.S.


    • By Mark Rockwell
    • Jun 16, 2016





    Visitors entering and exiting the U.S. should submit fingerprints as biometric proof of identity, the chairman of a Senate panel with oversight of immigration policy maintains.


    "Iris, face scans, we don't need that," said Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest of the Senate Judiciary Committee.


    Speaking at a Security Industry Association event in Washington, Sessions said an effective biometric visa entry/exit system that had been recommended by the 9/11 Commission and backed by four laws has yet to be implemented, and visa overstays are at record numbers. The security threat of those overstays can’t be measured, he said.


    "We should use fingerprints" as biometric identifiers, he said. "That's what's in law enforcement databases. Why create a new system?" A data facility that would manage the fingerprint database wouldn't "take up a building and won't slow down" the entry and exit process, Sessions argued.


    The senator took the airline industry to task for delaying the system. Airlines and airports have pushed back against exit systems because of potential delays and other problems.


    "Airlines don't determine policy," he said.


    In a subsequent panel discussion on biometrics and national security at the same conference, however, technologists said other biometric technologies such as facial recognition are improving.


    "Facial recognition has come a long way in accuracy," said Erik Bowman, Northrop Grumman's chief engineer for the U.S. Army's Automated Biometric Identification System. Bowman said that the accuracy of facial scans had climbed from 70 percent to 90 percent in recent years. In some cases, he said, existing camera systems in buildings and other locations could be harnessed for the capability.


    "We see gains in technical accuracy," said Mike Garcia, deputy director, National Strategy for Trusted Identity in Cyberspace. "We can do many more things with great benefit for relatively low cost" with some emerging technologies like facial recognition.

    Bowman and Garcia referenced the new Customs and Border Protection trial at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, begun June 13, to explore how facial recognition tech can work with existing agency IT systems.


    That trial will test how CBP's systems can work with facial comparison technology to process images of travelers leaving the U.S. CBP said the test would be very specific, testing passengers between 14 and 79 years old, leaving the airport on a single daily flight to Japan. It is set to last until Sept. 30.

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    Are we talking about tourist visa overstays? Is that what this is about? Because if they're student or work related visa overstays that seem more to be the problem, it's very simple how to verify a visa student or worker has overstayed, you make the employer and college responsible for their on-time departure or face huge fines and jail time. Very simple.

    Of course the best solution to all of this type of work and student visa overstay is to stop issuing work and student visas. This way more American students can go to college and more American Workers will have jobs and we don't have to worry about these types of illegal aliens because there won't be any. That's a win, win, win deal.

    As to the tourist visas, we need to know what % of these visa overstays contribute to the whole 500,000 visa overstay number, how long they overstay, and what they do during their overstay. I'm not all that worried about the tourist overstays based on what I think I know about it. People come, they visit relatives and spend money, they tour our country and spend money, they look for investments and spend money, they hang out with friends and spend money. They aren't stealing a job, signing up for welfare or stealing someone's education. They're just tourists who missed their departure date for some reason. Right? These people aren't the concern, are they? There's no reason to spend a lot of money or create a lot of tracking of tourists who are just tourists.
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