Yahoo! News - Foreigners Fingerprinted at U.S. Airports

Yahoo! News - Foreigners Fingerprinted at U.S. Airports: "Foreigners Fingerprinted at U.S. Airports


By MELANIE COFFEE, Associated Press Writer
CHICAGO - Foreigners arriving at U.S. airports were photographed and had their fingerprints scanned Monday in the start of a government effort to use some of the latest surveillance technology to keep terrorists out of the country. "....

We act as thought this is something new ! Singapore for instance enters every incoming traveler to their country into a data base so they can be quickly located if the person's embassy needs them to be evacuated. That is Singapore... the caning capital of the world.... but I have to tell you they have their act together when it comes to social order !!!