Customs and Immigration Union pushes biometrics
June 1, 2011 - 3:15pm
Border workers push for biometric screening in perimeter security plan with U.S.
"The Customs and Immigration Union wants more intensive screening of travellers, including a biometric face-recognition tool to pinpoint security threats and wanted criminals.
"t also advocates exit controls - the matching of information about people leaving Canada with databases to identify those wanted on criminal or deportation warrants. The Canada-U.S. declaration envisions such a system, saying the countries will work toward the exchange of information such that "documented entry into one country serves to verify exit from the other country.""
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If they go with the Bertillon system they'd have the added advantage of knowing right away who's a deviant or a ne'er-do-well.
Oh well, just another reason I won't be travelling to the United States anytime soon, even if I don't have a crinimal record.
I'm not going to put up with bullshit from people paranoid over security due to the fact that their so-called 'intelligence' agency didn't even try to share with the eaqually shitty FBI the info that would stop 9/11 from happening and to be treated like shit coming back into Canada from the USA by guards at secret checkpoints like this poor guy. The only thing I want to do in the States is sci-fi conventions anyway, and those I can do here since Toronto has a surplus of them.
So it looks like what I saw of our neighbors to the south will be just what I did as a child. When they calm down and don't believe that Canada's full of terrorists ready to kill them, then I'll come.