Air America breaking news: "USA to fingerprint ALL visitors !!!"

YAWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Chad Irby" wrote in message
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"Marie Lewis" wrote:

Please note that we all have the rest of the world to visit. Why visit
a
country which treats us as criminals?

On the other hand, you could always visit Spain, and relax on their
nice, safe, high-speed trains. Or the ones in France.

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Wolfgang Schwanke wrote:

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"nobody760" wrote:

So the message is visiting the USA is more trouble than its worth so
I'll go some place else.

Yeah, that two minute fingerprinting and photo is *sooo* hard after a
six-hour plane flight...

It's not the _time_ it takes which offends people.

If people were worried about bureaucratic nosiness, they wouldn't go to
most of Europe in the first place.

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AJC wrote:

Having finger-prints taken for a driving licence? Maybe in Cuba, the
former DDR, or some other 'big brother' regime, but certainly not in
any free country. Finger-printing is for criminals.

Check up on Brazil, then. They were complaining about fingerprinting
people from Brazil coming into the US, but neglected to note that they
already fingerprint and photograph *all* of their own citizens.

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AJC wrote:

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 13:57:38 GMT, Chad Irby wrote:

...and even with that, it's still going to be faster than most customs
checks in 99% of the countries in the world.

You don't get out very much do you?

I'm sure *you* don't, if you think US Customs and Immigration is bad,
compared to most places. Try any of the African nations, for example.
Or Russia.

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"Lennart Petersen" wrote:

99% ? Interesting. I transferred recently in 6 minutes from International
to domestic including security check. Was in Sandefjord Norway.
How many transfers international-domestic are done in less 6 minutes in U.S
?

You're taking a very unusual example (EU internal transfers), and
pretending that it's common worldwide.

Now, *that's* interesting.

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On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 17:30:05 +0000 (UTC), Alan Pollock
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In rec.travel.usa-canada AJC wrote:

Having finger-prints taken for a driving licence? Maybe in Cuba, the
former DDR, or some other 'big brother' regime, but certainly not in
any free country. Finger-printing is for criminals.

So you must be familiar with the process.

Seriously, driver's licenses are used as ID in the US.


And your point is what? Driving licences are used as a form of
identification in many countries whose governments don't keep a
database of innocent citizens' fingerprints.

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Dick Locke wrote:

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 13:57:38 GMT, Chad Irby wrote:


.and even with that, it's still going to be faster than most customs
checks in 99% of the countries in the world.


Say what? The US is one of a few countries that doesn't allow arriving
passengers to pick a green lane if they have nothing to declare.

We don't need one. I can't recall ever waiting for Customs. You usually
just hand them the form on the way out.

Chad Irby wrote:

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AJC wrote:


On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 13:57:38 GMT, Chad Irby wrote:


...and even with that, it's still going to be faster than most customs
checks in 99% of the countries in the world.

You don't get out very much do you?


I'm sure *you* don't, if you think US Customs and Immigration is bad,
compared to most places. Try any of the African nations, for example.
Or Russia.

I have never had my finger print or photo taken at Immigration in
Russia, have you??? I am not saying there is no reason for the US to do
it, only that I haven't seen it done in Russia.

In . com mtravelkay
wrote:
Chad Irby wrote:
In article ,
AJC wrote:
On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 13:57:38 GMT, Chad Irby wrote:

...and even with that, it's still going to be faster than most customs
checks in 99% of the countries in the world.

You don't get out very much do you?

I'm sure *you* don't, if you think US Customs and Immigration is bad,
compared to most places. Try any of the African nations, for example.
Or Russia.

I have never had my finger print or photo taken at Immigration in
Russia, have you??? I am not saying there is no reason for the US to do
it, only that I haven't seen it done in Russia.

Old habits die hard; they leave the photograph up to the desk clerk at
your hotel, and get your fingerprints off the glass in your bathroom.

:-)

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Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN

"Chad Irby" wrote in message
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"Sjoerd" wrote:

That's not true. US immigration queues are amongst the longest in the
world.

From the number of people, or from the speed of the process?

And the funny thing is, the people who are complaining about the US
wanting photos and fingerprints to come in are often from countries that
already insist on that for their own citizens (like Brazil).

No they are not! They are from Europe and from your "ally" the UK, where
fingerprints denote one's being a suspected criminal.