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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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Trusted Traveler Program Lets Mexicans Skip Airport Security

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61 posted on 12/10/2010 9:10:17 AM PST by LucyT
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To: La Lydia

This is not a program to get around airport security and screening when entering the airport. It is a program to get around customs screening when leaving the airport in the US.


62 posted on 12/10/2010 9:18:39 AM PST by Doneel
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To: Doneel; La Lydia

It seems from the Global Entry Program web site that any US citizen or permanent resident can apply.


63 posted on 12/10/2010 9:25:43 AM PST by Doneel
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To: LucyT

Thanks for the ping LucyT. I read it earlier, and was too ticked off to post any sociably acceptable commentary.


64 posted on 12/10/2010 9:25:46 AM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: La Lydia

This “trusted traveler” business is a term that I’ve seen used by Communists in the 1950s, maybe even earlier.

We are only a few steps away from needing papers to travel across state lines, and the microchips in our foreheads.

They’ve been hawking “trusted travelers” to freely travel around their “North American Union” (US, Mexico, and Canada).

I’m not submitting to this tyranny, better to die free than live as a slave.


65 posted on 12/10/2010 9:29:45 AM PST by Borax Queen
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To: Borax Queen

If you fly, you already need papers to travel across state lines.


66 posted on 12/10/2010 9:31:41 AM PST by La Lydia
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To: Son-Joshua
You know, the logic of this administration is more and more looking like the gang that couldn’t shoot straight.

The mistake is in assuming that they don't know exactly what they are doing. They are shooting bulls eyes, and we think they are missing.

67 posted on 12/10/2010 9:35:30 AM PST by itsahoot (We the people allowed Republican leadership to get us here, only God's Grace can get us out.)
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To: huldah1776
Is our military in the “trusted” class?

Probably not unless they are Muslim, all they do is throw hand grenades in tents full of sleeping fighting men, then shoot them as they flee.

68 posted on 12/10/2010 9:40:28 AM PST by itsahoot (We the people allowed Republican leadership to get us here, only God's Grace can get us out.)
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Burkas and turbans, Mexarabia style:
69 posted on 12/10/2010 10:35:33 AM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: MrInvisible
WTF?

You did hear the TSA did a pat down on the Ambassador from India? Big shot diplomats are spost to be no-touchy.

70 posted on 12/10/2010 11:01:14 AM PST by bigheadfred (STAND IN THE CLOSET AND SCREAM WITH ME)
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To: 1010RD

84 million Mexicans get a free pass. Yep, sounds about right. It’s only those evil Americans who have to get groped.


71 posted on 12/10/2010 12:12:32 PM PST by bgill (K Parliament- how could a young man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: bigheadfred

Was it a woman?


72 posted on 12/10/2010 1:25:33 PM PST by Lady Jag (Double your income... Fire the government)
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To: LucyT; La Lydia
You need to learn commie speech.

“No racial profiling” means that only Caucasians are to be violated.

73 posted on 12/10/2010 1:27:58 PM PST by Lady Jag (Double your income... Fire the government)
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To: Lady Jag
Was it a woman?

Exactly. That's why they shoulda used a scanner.

74 posted on 12/10/2010 1:40:49 PM PST by bigheadfred (STAND IN THE CLOSET AND SCREAM WITH ME)
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To: bigheadfred

Maybe this was an especially tactile TSA handyman.


75 posted on 12/10/2010 2:15:09 PM PST by Lady Jag (Double your income... Fire the government)
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To: Lady Jag

Nice phrasing.

I’m sticking with “perv”.


76 posted on 12/10/2010 2:18:40 PM PST by bigheadfred (STAND IN THE CLOSET AND SCREAM WITH ME)
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To: bigheadfred

Okay, how about “Tactile Perv,” a touchy feely thing?


77 posted on 12/10/2010 2:39:30 PM PST by Lady Jag (Double your income... Fire the government)
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To: Lady Jag

You seen the movie “Alien”? I think if we add some slimy tentacles type things and an overactive libido (small attached dog syndrome) we’ll have it. Maybe we could call it a Pervtile. Doesn’t rip you to shreds. Doesn’t eat you. But you wake up in the middle of the night, screaming, for years.


78 posted on 12/10/2010 3:18:00 PM PST by bigheadfred (STAND IN THE CLOSET AND SCREAM WITH ME)
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To: La Lydia

Okay? How about 1/4 of Americans?

So the TSA is saying that 75% of Mexicans can be trusted, but US citizens cannot be?

It’s got to be a misprint.


79 posted on 12/10/2010 4:25:23 PM PST by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: Son-Joshua
That only leaves only two groups that have proven to NOT be a threat to America: Jews and Christians.

Remember, this is the same woman who called veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan potential threats to national security.

80 posted on 12/10/2010 5:53:20 PM PST by He Rides A White Horse (unite)
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