More Ports of Entry to Use Digital Screening

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More Ports of Entry to Use Digital Screening

Tue Jan 4, 7:55 AM ET Top Stories - Los Angeles Times


By Nick Anderson Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — One year after launching a digital screening system to help identify suspicious foreigners arriving in the United States by air and sea, federal officials announced Monday that they have extended the program to the 50 busiest U.S. land ports along the Canadian and Mexican borders — including six checkpoints in California.


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The program uses digital scanners to examine prints taken from the two index fingers, as well as head-shot photographs taken with digital cameras.


Those "biometric" identifiers can then be matched against several databases, verifying the identity of visitors and checking federal and state watch lists.


Last year, the new tools helped authorities arrest or deny entry to 372 people sought for federal or state crimes or identified as violators of immigration law, according to Department of Homeland Security officials

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Oh this is going to work at the checkpoints but that Mexico Border and Canada Border are awful Big!!!