Homeland Security Strikes Again!

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris


It happened to me in France that the bank wouldn't open an account without an electricity bill, and the electricity company wouldn't give me electricity without a bank account.

My electricity company sends me e-bills ... as does my phone company ... and my gas company ...

So when people ask for a utility bill, I ask, "Do you have a computer?"

They usually look at me funny

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
Pekka, you don't get it. Everyone is already being fingerprinted and photographed on their way in

No. Not at land borders. That's the whole point.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


No. Not at land borders. That's the whole point.

Fair enough. But airport entries are still significant, especially the Chinese, Indians, and Filipinos.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Let me elaborate:

You've got two vehicles for immigration into the US: the land borders and air traffic.

Land borders are a giant headache. This is not about them.

But air traffic is brings in hoards of illegal immigrants who come in legally and then oversstay their welcome. We can't do much about the land border issue, but we can do something about this, and we're choosing not to.

And yes, of course this measure wouldn't solve all our immigration problems, or even the biggest of them. But it would solve a problem, and a not-insignificant one at that. I still can't believe they're just giving up on it.

[Pekka]

Blaablaablaa too boring.

The arguments of You DON'T understand it is POSSIBLE, viable and reasonable to track _everyone_ ...

At this point I usually stop reading.