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November 09, 2009
DHS Readies Biometric Exit Tracking Plan for Air Travelers The DHS is finalizing plans for a biometric tracking system that will apply to air travelers leaving the U.S. Congress originally mandated an exit-tracking system in 1996, but continual delay and objection by the travel industry and the federal bureaucracy have taken their toll. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) told the Washington Post she was pleased with the outline of the system. "A biometric exit system is critical to tracking the arrival and departure of foreign nationals -- not just through a paper trail, but through fingerprints, photographs, and other fraud-proof biometric identifiers," Feinstein noted. The system is not intended for land borders at this time, however, where the majority of exits by visitors to the U.S. take place. |
