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tanstaafl
12-02-2007, 09:59 PM
Just another brick in the wall. Wouldn't it make more sense to (1) announce that anyone found in the country illegally 30 days hence would receive 10 years in prison with hard labor in return for food and water (2) announce a bounty for anyone caught in the country illegally thereafter?

Of course it would make sense - but only if you were actually interested in saving money and keeping out illegals and terrorists. If, in reality, you are mainly interested in surveilling and persecuting your own citizens, this is perfect.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/02/AR2006110201810.html?nav=hcmoduletmv

U.S. Plans to Screen All Who Enter, Leave Country
Personal Data Will Be Cross-Checked With Terrorism Watch Lists; Risk Profiles to Be Stored for Years

By Ellen Nakashima and Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, November 3, 2006; Page A18

The federal government disclosed details yesterday of a border-security program to screen all people who enter and leave the United States, create a terrorism risk profile of each individual and retain that information for up to 40 years.

The details, released in a notice published yesterday in the Federal Register, open a new window on the government's broad and often controversial data-collection effort directed at American and foreign travelers, which was implemented after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

While long known to scrutinize air travelers, the Department of Homeland Security is seeking to apply new technology to perform similar checks on people who enter or leave the country "by automobile or on foot," the notice said.

constituent
12-02-2007, 10:50 PM
i, for one, have no desire to live in a nation of snitches.