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. ...
Will the last person out please shut off the light?
Maybe so. I don’t know. But giving trusted status to foreign citizens and refusing it to citizens is not acceptable. Foreign citizens are more likely, IMO, to be susceptible to such “temptation.” They don’t have any skin the game, so-to-speak.
Ping!
My thoughts exactly!
My thoughts exactly!
So, once again we have Taxation Without Representation. Our tax monies are not representing We the Peple. It is time to abolish our federal government.
Should be titled; Tusted Traveler Program Lets Mexicans Skip Airport Sexual Assault by TSA.
Just goes to show how high up drug cartel tentacles reach.
Remember when you used to watch movies and think things were too outlandish and wondered why anyone would write such crazy stuff? Don’t you feel like you’ve woken up in one of those movies?
To be candid, that behaviour pattern comes from an attitude that believes anyone with skin in the game is tainted because (s)he has an "interest." In the olden days, it was a rule of thumb used to chase away subsidy-seekers; nowadays, it's used as a way of dismissing out of hand anyone who has something to protect.
Nuts!
I ask in another thread were we living in an alternate universe because it seems like I am watching a comedy movie. The sad part is that the vast majority of Americans, yes, even Republicans, have no idea this has happened.
I am with you on the alternate universe. Did you see the earlier post about “DEMS HELPING CHINESE GET $450 MILLION IN STIMULUS MONEY”? I just had to laugh. More parallel universe stuff. I can’t believe it. Obama is SUCH genius.
A bribe like "Carry this, or your family dies slowly and painfully"?
Yep.
Thanks for the ping SwinneySwitch.
The TSA Protest Song: Comply With Me, Obey, Obey, Obey
http://www.anorak.co.uk/265838/politicians/the-tsa-protest-song-comply-with-me-obey-obey-obey.html
>>Will the last person out please shut off the light?<<
Under the Save a Dollar Program the lights have been wired to motion detectors. When movement stops they will go out automatically.
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