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. ...
Festive indeed. I think I'll bake a cake.
So Congress, Moslems, Mexicans and Hezbollah get a pass?
Meanwhile every American getting on a plane by 2012 will go through a porn scanner.
We already have “trusted travelers” in America.... pilots, stewardesses, government officials and probably soon Muslims.
“Time for Nepolitano to face hearings from the House Transportation Committee.”
Time for Napolitano to face a f..... squad ...
Mebbe someone otta let the Indian Ambassador know about this.
WTF?
This isn’t America anymore.
Regarding the last line, if these Mexicans are crossing into the United States ILLEGALLY, they are NOT IMMIGRANTS.
And why should Mexicans have more rights and freedoms in American airports than Americans? Civil War II here we come!
Nope. We live in a parallel universe. We just don’t remember the night the aliens stole us in our sleep and possessed the bodies of our “rulers.”
I’m a peace loving Christian but I do not tolerate traitorous injustices well at ALL. If it takes a civil war then so be it but all I know is we CANNOT let this continue!
About 84 million Mexicans are expected to qualify for the trusted traveler program
That's equivalent to 1/3 of all Americans.
Over and above the millions who violate our borders, 1.5 million legal foreign workers come to the US each year, as a matter of course.
But this number isn’t high enough for former cab driver Cong Gutierrez (D-Ill) and his 92 co-sponsors. Their Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill includes a provision called “recapture” that will add up all the supposedly “unused” work visas since 1992 and issue them immediately.
This is a complete fraud, as all unused work visas are rolled over to the family reunification category the next year as it is.
Gutierrez' Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill will create 100,000 visas from countries that send the most illegal immigrants every year. According to the State Department, this will mean 550,000 new foreign workers.
Gutierrez' bill will make it much easier for more illegal aliens to break in. Under the Bill, to prove they have jobs and were in the country BEFORE Congress passed amnesty, illegals are allowed to use stolen ID's, fake green cards, and fraudulent SS numbers....... without fear of prosecution.
Mexico facilitates the profitable staging area for global illegals to cross the border. Contrary to Obama’s claim that CIR bill will increase border security, it does just the opposite.........
<> it guts successful enforcement measures,
<> limits raids on illegal immigrants,
<> prohibits use of troops on the border,
<> replaces E-Verify used to ensure employers hire legal American workers,
<> overturns all state and local US laws that crackdown on illegal immigration,
<> abolishes 287(g) that allows local L/E and federal authorities to apprehend criminal illegals.
Gutierrez makes Commie Van Jones look like a patriot.
Is our military in the “trusted” class?
Racial profiling in reverse. How about a hearing at the SCOTUS?
Otherwise, contact the Department of Homeland Security about a safety issue.
http://www.dhs.gov/xutil/contactus.shtm
Is there a senatorial committee that oversees this department or are they all czars?
I was so mad I didn’t finish reading all the posts. Thanks for the info. Here’s the member page:
http://transportation.house.gov/singlepages/singlepages.aspx/about#member
There are 112 million people in Mexico. There are 310 million people in the United States.
F***ing bitch Nazipolitano. While my 95 yr old mother gets groped, we give Mexicans a free pass at our taxpayer expense I assume.
Not to worry.
Opportunists can't resist headline opportunity.
If she seriously believed that plans for a people's security were important she'd be studying the instructions written for our protection more than 200 years ago that she and her ilk pay no attention to.
Mexico is one of the most corrupt counties in the world. The terrorists will have no problem getting a “ trusted traveler “permit from government officials. Another wonderful program from the blunder-in-chief. If it is obama’s intent to destroy America’s security , he is doing a good job at it.
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