American Voices

Fingerprinting Foreign Visitors

January 14, 2004 | ISSUE 40•02

To 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

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