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Eugene

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6. Coming in, yes. Only visitors get a the intensive check going out.

Reply to genxlib (Reply #4)

Tue Dec 3, 2019, 08:34 AM

Dec 2019

The rationale after 9/11 was to track foreign nationals as they entered and left U.S. soil.

U.S. citizens arriving by air already check in at automated kiosks, which scan their passports and their faces (not hats, sunglasses, etc.) The kiosk spits out a ticket with grainy image, which you take to the CPB officer for the final immigration check.

One of the original ideas was to verify that people boarding airplanes were who they said they were. Now, the mission creep now proposes adding movements of suspicious people. What's next, a Chinese-style social credit system?

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