There’s the biometric entry-exit system, but that was already passed as law in 2004.
Biometrics in the case of the 2004 law doesn’t mean anyone gets a chip implant, or a DNA screen; facial recognition requirements of Real ID already contains the biometrics required by the 2004 law. The government already monitors your coming and going, but it doesn’t do what it was supposed to with that information: make sure aliens leave.
Like just about everything else in the Bush-era security regime, everything was enforced against patriotic Americans, and nothing was enforced against aliens.
The 2004 law directed the federal government to devise an entry-exit visa system, so we could track people who entered America on a supposedly temporary basis, but who never left. But whereas the feds LOVE infringing on the rights of its citizens, it loves even more bringing as many illegal aliens as it can to the U.S., so it ignored that part of the law.
This bill does nothing more than direct the federal government to devise that plan, provide cost estimates for implementing it, and run a trial program in three ports of entry. This should have been done in 2004, but Congress failed to include any mechanism to compel compliance.
So, keep in mind about the entry-exit system:
1) If you’re not traveling internationally, this law has nothing at all to do with you.
2) If you’re traveling internationally and you’re a U.S. citizen, this law doesn’t change anything having anything to do with you. You’re already in the biometric system, and this law does NOT add anything creepy or Revelation-y, like implanted chips or DNA scans.
3) If you’re an alien, this law only requires the government to study the costs and functioning of implementing a system it was already directed to implement in 2004, but failed to do so.
If anything, we should be angry that this law continues to give the feds license to ignore security laws already passed.