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GAO challenges facing US-VISIT program
Holland Knight publications ^ | 12/14/06 | Holland & Knight

Posted on 12/15/2006 9:13:37 AM PST by WatchingInAmazement

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report on strategic, operational, and technological challenges facing the US-VISIT program.

It states that federal officials have concluded that, for various reasons, a biometric US-VISIT exit capability cannot now be implemented without incurring a major impact on land ports-of-entry facilities.

The system recorded 61 million aliens entering the country and only 4 million departing. Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags are embedded on visitors departure forms, but in a recent test, monitoring devices correctly identified only 14% of exiting vehicles with such tags.

Billions of dollars have been expended and more will be needed to make this work. Note: The government is learning, albeit belatedly, that technology is not free and is not a panacea.

Similar problems exist with the TWIC program. Remember, Congress established both the goal and the means to be used in its accomplishment, as well as the budget. GAO-07-248 (12/14/06).


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; immigrantlist; immigration; usvisa; visa
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d07248.pdf

GAO REPORT

1 posted on 12/15/2006 9:13:38 AM PST by WatchingInAmazement
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To: WatchingInAmazement
The system recorded 61 million aliens entering the country and only 4 million departing.

Maybe nothing is wrong with the RIFD tags. The GAO needs to think "outside the box". /slight sarcasm

2 posted on 12/15/2006 9:18:13 AM PST by Last Laugh
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To: WatchingInAmazement

"...without incurring a major impact on land ports-of-entry facilities." Wonder what kind of a major impact on land ports-of-entry will occur when one of our Islamic "guests" sets off a suitcase nuke or something equally deadly. What happened to our "can do" country that invented the use of electricity, the telephone, the airplane, the atom bomb and sent men to the moon? We are governed by a bunch of wussies whose greatest fear is that there might be a major impact on land ports-of-entry facilities.


3 posted on 12/15/2006 9:34:31 AM PST by 3AngelaD (ic.)
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4 posted on 12/15/2006 10:10:20 AM PST by gubamyster
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