Posted on 12/09/2010 12:58:28 PM PST by La Lydia
As violent drug cartels take over Mexico and expand their criminal enterprises north, the United States has signed a “trusted traveler” agreement that allows pre-screened Mexican airline passengers to bypass lengthy airport security checkpoints. The foreigners will get “trusted traveler cards” with fingerprints and other biometric data and they must answer customs declarations questions on touch-screen kiosks before leaving airport inspection areas. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano claims it’s a way to enhance information sharing and mutual security in the face of “ever-evolving, multinational threats.”
About 84 million Mexicans are expected to qualify for the trusted traveler program, according to Mexico’s Interior Ministry Secretary, who signed the agreement on behalf of his country this week. Celebrating the festive occasion, the Mexican government official assured that the new accord will facilitate the U.S. entry of business travelers and tourists who are key factors in economic development, growth of trade and cultural exchange.
Mexicans will get the perk through the U.S. government’s Global Entry Program, which allows participants to obtain security clearance by presenting a “machine-readable” passport or resident card at airport “Global Entry kiosks.” The machines issue the foreign travelers a transaction receipt and directions to baggage claim and the exit into the United States. Applying is easy. Candidates fill out an online application, provide valid identification and answer a few questions from a Customs and Border Protection officer.
While Napolitano was in Mexico finalizing the trusted traveler agreement this week, she also took the opportunity to sign a “letter of intent” to develop a plan for protecting immigrants from criminal attacks as they cross the border—illegally—into the U.S. ...
I’ll bet a dollar to a doughnut that Americans can’t get such cards.
Profiling.
I don’t even know what to say anymore.
And how long before a terrorist offers a trusted traveler a bribe too good to refuse?
how long before a terrorist poses as a Mexican?
Hey! Terrorists! Narcotraficantes! You can apply online!
You know, the logic of this administration is more and more looking like the gang that couldn’t shoot straight. Let’s see, mexicans who qualify under this trusted traveler program won’t have to be screened. muslims I’m told can opt out of being checked as well. That only leaves only two groups that have proven to NOT be a threat to America: Jews and Christians. These people are touched, squeezed, x-rayed, because their rights are limited under the new terrorist laws. Oh, I forgot we can’t call members of certain groups terrorists.
You know, the logic of this administration is more and more looking like the gang that couldn’t shoot straight. Let’s see, mexicans who qualify under this trusted traveler program won’t have to be screened. muslims I’m told can opt out of being checked as well. That only leaves only two groups that have proven to NOT be a threat to America: Jews and Christians. These people are touched, squeezed, x-rayed, because their rights are limited under the new terrorist laws. Oh, I forgot we can’t call members of certain groups terrorists. I need an aspirin.
Plus, if you’re a Mexican, once you’re in, you’re in, and all you have to do is wait for the amnesty. All 84 million of them.
But the rest of us cannot fly from Chicago to St Louis without the molestation or nude imaging? I bet we are even paying for the 84,000,000 Mexicans to get this special program.
Gee, isn't that aiding and abetting?
Will the United States federal government prosecute itself for violating federal law?
Why do I know the answer...
Why yes we are paying for it.
I don't mean to be a wet blanket, but that consideration may have killed the original drive for a Trusted Traveler program for Americans. That and identity theft, forgery, etc.
I have said many times, that I am sure they can't go any lower. Every time I say it, they go lower.
Time for Nepolitano to face hearings from the House Transportation Committee.
No such card should be issued to anyone who does not hold an American passport.
No such card should be issued to anyone who does not hold an American passport.
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