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Trusted Traveler Program Lets Mexicans Skip Airport Security
Judicial Watch ^ | December 9, 2010

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. ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Mexico; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airplanes; airport; airports; aliens; dhs; gep; globalentryprogram; idiotalert; janetnapolitano; mexico; napolitano; openborders; planes; stuckonstupid; trustedtraveler; tsa; tsapervs
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To: La Lydia

Will the last person out please shut off the light?


21 posted on 12/09/2010 2:11:48 PM PST by New Jersey Realist (Congress doesn't care a damn about "we the people")
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To: danielmryan

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.


22 posted on 12/09/2010 2:14:02 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: La Lydia; 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; ...

Ping!


23 posted on 12/09/2010 2:15:10 PM PST by HiJinx (I can see Mexico from the back porch...)
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To: RonF

My thoughts exactly!


24 posted on 12/09/2010 2:15:55 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: RonF

My thoughts exactly!


25 posted on 12/09/2010 2:16:04 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: La Lydia

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.


26 posted on 12/09/2010 2:16:39 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: La Lydia

Should be titled; Tusted Traveler Program Lets Mexicans Skip Airport Sexual Assault by TSA.


27 posted on 12/09/2010 2:19:10 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: La Lydia

Just goes to show how high up drug cartel tentacles reach.


28 posted on 12/09/2010 3:01:19 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: La Lydia
About 84 million Mexicans are expected to qualify for the trusted traveler program...
population of Mexico is approx 111 million....let 'em all in !
29 posted on 12/09/2010 3:20:21 PM PST by stylin19a
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To: lonevoice

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?


30 posted on 12/09/2010 3:22:06 PM PST by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: La Lydia
Just in case, it comes in a handy travel size for Americans enduring TSA love at the airports:


31 posted on 12/09/2010 3:32:20 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: BuckeyeTexan
I'm not speaking up for the practice, even though I'm not American myself. The dichotomy between the two fits a pattern: cutting slack to foreigners while imposing higher standards on citizens.

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.

32 posted on 12/09/2010 4:00:13 PM PST by danielmryan
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To: La Lydia; deadmenvote; tuffydoodle; secondamendmentkid; re_nortex; Lorianne; Wage Slave; HushTX; ...

Nuts!


33 posted on 12/09/2010 4:20:41 PM PST by SwinneySwitch (Nemo me impune lacessit)
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To: La Lydia

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.


34 posted on 12/09/2010 4:29:44 PM PST by devane617 (NEVER feed your cats canned Tuna fish. Mercury poisoning.)
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To: devane617

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.


35 posted on 12/09/2010 4:57:04 PM PST by La Lydia
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To: BuckeyeTexan
And how long before a terrorist offers a trusted traveler a bribe too good to refuse?

A bribe like "Carry this, or your family dies slowly and painfully"?

36 posted on 12/09/2010 4:58:40 PM PST by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Why are TSA exempt from their own searches?)
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To: SwinneySwitch

Yep.

Thanks for the ping SwinneySwitch.


37 posted on 12/09/2010 5:09:12 PM PST by Cindy
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To: La Lydia

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


38 posted on 12/09/2010 5:26:57 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body." CS Lewis)
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To: lonevoice

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2639892/posts


39 posted on 12/09/2010 5:45:11 PM PST by B4Ranch (Do NOT remain seated until this ride comes to a full and complete stop! We're going the wrong way!)
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To: New Jersey Realist

>>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.


40 posted on 12/09/2010 5:58:42 PM PST by B4Ranch (Do NOT remain seated until this ride comes to a full and complete stop! We're going the wrong way!)
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