Tom Ridge in Immigration Wars, by Jeb Bush

On Immigration: 2003: US-VISIT relying on biometric fingerprinting

Post-9/11 antiterrorism efforts led to massive backlogs of foreign visitors entering the US and to controversial registration and detention of Middle Eastern visitors. In an effort to harmonize the interests of security and commerce, in 2003 then-secretary of homeland security Tom Ridge implemented the US-VISIT program. The system relies on biometrics fingerprinting, which is used to identify everyone entering the US except short-term visitors from Mexico or Canada, comparing them with a database that by 2008 contained 90 million sets of prints. The system builds upon extensive intelligence and information sharing with foreign countries so that the border is the last rather than the 1st line of defense against terrorists. Source: Immigration Wars, by Jeb Bush, p. 54 Mar 5, 2013

The above quotations are from Immigration Wars Forging An American Solution, by Gov. Jeb Bush and Clint Bolick. Click here for main summary page. Click here for a profile of Tom Ridge. Click here for Tom Ridge on all issues.
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