Muslim Visitors to US Treated Like Criminals

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by Guynemer
What exactly is fingerprinting foreigners as they come into the US supposed to accomplish, anyway?

Enable background checks into criminal records from their home country, among other things. Why do you think I was fingerprinted numbskull?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Not that I agree with Cali, but why would that be so?

Because a lot of money (tourism and work) comes through those area. Fingerprinting everyone that comes through would make the border crossing come to a standstill (instead of the 5 minutes it takes to go to Canada, etc.). Many people just won't bother coming over anymore.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Enable background checks into criminal records from their home country, among other things. Why do you think I was fingerprinted numbskull?

Um... so what do you think they do when they grant a visa? Pick out of a hat?

[Panag]

Originally posted by Caligastia


Enable background checks into criminal records from their home country, among other things. Why do you think I was fingerprinted numbskull?

hi ,

and what if the "homecountry" is helping them , ........the criminal and terrorist that is , .........

have a nice day

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
IIRC, its a way to establish the identity of that person.

So anytime Joe Smith from Windsor, Ontario, decides to go to a Tigers game or something (which, granted, is suspicious in and of itself), he'll have to wait for hours at the border, while a computer searches a database of Canadian fingerprints? (Those sorts of things do take hours, on a good day.)

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Um... so what do you think they do when they grant a visa? Pick out of a hat?

Given the state of the INS, that's probably what they do.

[Panag]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

Enable background checks into criminal records from their home country, among other things. Why do you think I was fingerprinted numbskull?

Um... so what do you think they do when they grant a visa? Pick out of a hat?

hi ,

that is what is going on nowadays , replace hat with bin from quota , ....;

have a nice day

[Guynemer]

To say nothing of the thousands of Canadians who cross the border every day to work in the Detroit area... nurses in particular. You want to fingerprint 'em every time they come over the Ambassador Bridge? Makes sense, I suppose... everyone knows that there's no one more dangerous to a free society than a Canadian nurse...

[Caligastia]

Bah. Its all too little too late anyway.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Guy, you better watch those Canadians... Asher might sneak through .

[Dis]

aren't most visitor to the U.S. criminals?

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Guy, you better watch those Canadians... Asher might sneak through .

From Alberta? He wouldn't come through Michigan, he'd come through Montana... and he'd fit right in there.

[Arrian]

I would think, Guy, that someone who works in the US like those Canadian nurses you mention could be issued some sort of pass (after they are checked out and cleared the first time around). Then again, that would require common sense, and we're talking about the INS, so maybe not.

-Arrian

[Ned]

Originally posted by Chris 62
Many of you miss the essential point.

Laws must be applied equally to all, or they mean nothing.

ALL foriegn nationals should be fingerprinted, or none at all.

Chris 62, The equal protection clause applies to citizens, but does it applies to visiting aliens as a condition for entry? What if there is a valid reason for the unequal treatment and a compelling governmental need?

We haven't gone this far yet, but I can see a wholesale ban on visa's for aliens from selected countries being constitutional.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Guynemer
To say nothing of the thousands of Canadians who cross the border every day

An American court was told Tuesday how easily accused millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam obtained a false Canadian passport before heading to the United States in a car packed with explosives

I wouldn't automatically assume that an unguarded 45,000 mile border is entirely without its problems.