[Dallas59]

Brazil...Who cares.

[samtheman]

Cool. We stop going there, they stop coming here. Fair enough.

[gg188]

Travellers to Brazil have quickly figured out a sure-fire way around this fingerprinting if they wish to avoid it: don't go to Brazil.

[anymouse]

Well it looks like that trip to Rio for Carnaval is off. :)

Watch Brazil's tourism drop like a stone.

[EggsAckley]

My thought eggsackley............"so what....?"

[LoudRepublicangirl]

Since Brazil is not on my travel itinerary I simply do not care.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Reason 967 not to go to Brazil.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

And by the way, speaking of Nazi's, which continent took in the Nazi's as they were fleeing Europe like the cowards they were?

[Reagan Man]

Judge da Silva sounds like he's 12 years old. What an idiot! LOL

[longtermmemmory]

Who cares? people who speak portugues?

Does Brazil still have hyper-inflation?

This does not bode well for Brazil joining NAFTA.

[Faraday]

"I consider the act absolutely brutal, threatening human rights, violating human dignity, xenophobic and worthy of the worst horrors committed by the Nazis," said Sebastiao da Silva in the court order released on Tuesday.

Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Brazil were not immediately available to comment. They were laughing too darn hard.

[Henrietta]

""I consider the act absolutely brutal, threatening human rights, violating human dignity, xenophobic and worthy of the worst horrors committed by the Nazis," said Sebastiao da Silva."

This guy really needs to get some perspective. Fingerprinting is hardly equal to being sent to the gas chambers.

[Caipirabob]

Sounds like the judge may have had his Green Card turned down sometime recently. Ooooo! Those bad, bad Americans!

Inveja e merde, chato.

[observer5]

This judge is just an idiot.

WHo can blame him. He only gets to hear the same crap in the news about the US that Europe get to hear.

[Gouda]

The measure does not apply to citizens of 27, mainly European, nations who do not need a visa to enter the United States.

This is not quite the end of the story. Starting 10/26/2004, people from these 27 countries who want to enter the U.S. without using a visa will need to have their biometric details in their passports - something that is close to nonexistant in these countries.

In effect, from next autumn on, there will be considerably fewer visitors to the U.S.

G.