Border Patrol hails new ID system

[Rose Siding]

Border Patrol agents assigned to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) identified and arrested 23,502 persons with criminal records nationwide through a new biometric integrated fingerprint system during a three-month period beginning in September, CBP officials said yesterday.

Most of those arrested were foreign nationals.

"This 21st-century biometric identification technology is a critical law-enforcement tool for our CBP Border Patrol agents," said CBP Commissioner Robert C. Bonner. "It allows CBP Border Patrol agents to quickly identify criminals by working faster, smarter and employing technology to better secure the nation."
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During the three-month period this year, the agents identified and detained 84 homicide suspects, 37 kidnapping suspects, 151 sexual assault suspects, 212 robbery suspects, 1,238 suspects for assaults of other types, and 2,630 suspects implicated in dangerous narcotics-related charges.
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CBP is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of the nation's borders at and between the ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20041220-103705-9177r.htm

[Paleocon]

1. Step in the right direction...

But how about keeping all illegal immigrants out of America???

:think:

[el_gato]

2. they always use these types of justifications

when they want to convince people of the need for Orwellian technologies. Don't you want to be "safe" from the boogey man?!!?!

[LeftHander]

3. National borders....then state borders...then county, then city...

and so on and so on....

[KingChicken]

4. Reject the national ID, it's a step towards total lockdown....

Do you really want armed domestic checkpoints, just like in Iraq? This is what the national ID system is looking to install, one step at a time.