Fingerprinting Foreign Visitors
0To improve national security, last week the U.S. began fingerprinting and photographing foreigners arriving at air- and seaports. What do you think?
“What? They have fingerprints? Those bastards become more like humans every day.”
James R. Webb –
Marine Engineer“They're taking photos? That's useless. Everyone looks like a terrorist in an ID photo.”
Paula Holt –
Writer“I've always thought that people should have to jump through more hoops for the privilege of visiting a glorious bastion of freedom and liberty like America.”
Shirley Crawford –
Illustrator“This information will come in handy if we ever need to determine exactly who touched the counter at the St. Louis Arch gift shop.”
Edgar Little –
Systems Analyst“Why the hubbub? It's not like we're extracting delicious DNA samples from them. Did I say delicious? I meant invasive.”
Alex Mason –
Dishwasher“They do the photography and fingerprinting at no charge? America truly is the land of opportunity!”
Ronald Ramirez –
Guard
