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Proposed legislation just passed out of committee has the stated goal, “to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to gain and maintain operational control of the international borders of the United States.”
Down inside the "Secure Our Borders First Act" is a clause which calls for a biometric data exit system, (mentioned briefly here).
From this news item:
The Secure our Borders First Act would require full implementation of a biometric exit data system, which would require persons heading from the U.S. to Canada to not only be stopped and interviewed by Canadian authorities, as they currently are, but also by U.S. authorities, which has never been the case. This would require billions of dollars of plaza expansions on the U.S. side of the border, and new Customs and Border Protection officers to staff these currently-nonexistent booths and gates.
Elsewhere, biometrics were defined as fingerprinting or retina scan.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 25 2015, @09:20AM
You forgot to name Obama as an ebil socialist who's stealing all your rights so the commies can take power.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Sunday January 25 2015, @11:10AM
Don't be a fucking DNCtard. Everyone knows that Obama is exactly like Nixon, except with better features. Seriously, Obama brought us Nixon's health care plan, tons of war, surveillance on a scale that would have Nixon creaming his pants 24/7 for about 3 weeks running, more whistleblower prosecutions than all other presidents combined, huge Wall Street bailouts -- seriously, if Obama is the face of modern communism, Jeffry Dahmer is the face of modern veganism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 26 2015, @12:17PM
The Wall Street bailouts started with Bush (it was Bush whose signature is on the TARP bill), and they were supported by any economist with half a clue. It should have been followed with wholesale reform of the banking industry, but Congress (or at least the "R" part, by a party line vote [harvard.edu]) made sure that nothing more than window dressing was done. Obama hasn't brought "tons of war", and in fact the wind-down in Iraq was done on his timeline to much criticism from the right as being too hasty.
LOL. Now it's Nixon's health care plan? It is funny when Romney was running, it was the successful Romney/Massachusetts plan. Now that Obama has implemented something like it, you need to demonize it by finding an "evil" name to attach to it.
You REALLY need to expand your exposure as to where you get your news. Just because pundits sing the same song over and over, it doesn't magically change history. (Time-transport Goebbels to today and I guarantee he'd have a popular show on a particular cable network).
(Score: 2) by naubol on Monday January 26 2015, @03:40PM
He's not *exactly* like Nixon. But both presidents are far far closer to the center than either party would credit. And, Obama is black, surely a sign of the apocalypse.