Posted on 06/27/2002 10:28:49 PM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:55:00 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
In early June, Attorney General John Ashcroft came up with an intelligent plan to fingerprint and photograph some 100,000 Middle Eastern visa holders a year to be better able to track them while here in the United States. The idea was particularly sound since of the 19 hijackers on September 11 all but one had come here legally through the State Department visa system, and 12 were still legally here at the moment of devastation.
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