From: "Rich Gauszka" 

And one of the reason DHS used for the tracking database was to know when
visitors left the country. Now DHS admits they don't have the funds or
technology to do that. Of course it only took the Bush appointees five
years to figure that out

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2006/12/19/1220edborder.html
The Department of Homeland Security has thrown in the towel on an ambitious
and troubled system to track foreign visitors.

Had it worked, the system would have allowed Homeland Security to compare
lists of millions of arrivals and departures and detect when visitors
overstay their visas, be they terrorists or illegal immigrants.

That might seem simple enough, but there was nothing simple about this
effort. In 2001, Congress mandated that huge numbers of departing visitors
be checked against a database of digital photos and fingerprint scans made
when they enter the United States. It has taken five years for the agency
to determine it doesn't have the technology or the billions of dollars
needed to efficiently screen outgoing visitors at U.S. land checkpoints on
the Canadian and Mexican borders.

Homeland Security says it has been able to gather fingerprint and photo
data from incoming visitors, but doesn't have the resources to check if
they've left by land, and may not be able to do so for another five to 10
years. That defeats the purpose of the program.

"Mark"  wrote in message
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>I doubt very much that they'll be using specific sectors of the hard drives
>to put the prints of law abiding UK citizens "alongside those of
criminals"
>
>
> "John Beamish"  wrote in message
> news:op.tltd5hg1m6tn4t{at}dellblack.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
>> http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1984496,00.html
>>
>> Millions of Britons who visit the United States are to have their
>> fingerprints stored on the FBI database alongside those of criminals, in
>> a move that has outraged civil rights groups.
>
>

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