{"id":84246,"date":"2016-01-02T19:48:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T03:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=84246"},"modified":"2016-01-02T19:54:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T03:54:08","slug":"the-usa-is-the-only-country-i-have-ever-been-to-where-immigration-does-not-check-you-out-of-the-country-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=84246","title":{"rendered":"‘The USA is the ONLY country I have ever been to where immigration does NOT check you out of the country. Why?’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comments to Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* A biometric ID for all persons in the United States, citizens and non-citizens alike, is the answer. It would be produced whenever you use a credit card, cash a check, etc.<\/p>\n

* Here\u2019s an idea for an immigration reform which is compassionate but has teeth. If you are over 18 and you are discovered to be in the country illegally, your biometric data is taken, and you are given 1 year to wrap up your affairs and leave the country, and if you do so future LEGAL attempts to enter the country will not be prejudiced, you will be forgiven. However, if you are found to be in the USA illegally after the 12 months is up, you must serve 12 months in Federal Prison after which you will be kicked out and prohibited from entering the USA legally for 20 years (only exceptions would be people with foreign diplomatic credentials or who are allowed in on an individual basis by an Act Of Congress).<\/p>\n

* I don\u2019t get it. First, I visited the US about ten times under the visa waiver program. Still I had to submit an online request for that including my passport number and a lot of other data. Before entering the country, I was questioned by an immigration officer, and my fingerprints and photograph was taken. So I assume this happenes to anyone entering with a visa as well. The expiration date is known, and you have to produce your passport when checking in for your return flight. So if the airlines submit their passenger lists with passport numbers when the passenger leaves the US, this can be checked against the known and finite list of people who have entered the country and whose visas have not yet expired. If and when an expiry date passes and no record has been submitted by an airline of the person having left the country, the system give a red flag and that person is automatically assumed to have overstayed his\/her visa. No biometrical data needed, just a decent database.<\/p>\n

Facebook knows when my birthday is, and my friends\u2019 birthdays, and can send me reminders, so why can\u2019t the federal government know when a person\u2019s visa has expired and whether there is a record of that person having left? Seems no more complicated.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t see the need for biometrical data, but if they are capable of taking my data when entering (as they have done a dozen times), why can\u2019t they do so when leaving? I don\u2019t buy the technology argument for one minute.<\/p>\n

* Given how incompetent the US government is with border control, how about bringing in some foreign experts \u2013 I\u2019m sure Japan, Switzerland and Singapore have some useful ideas.<\/p>\n

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