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Ridge cited the success of the United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program, implemented last month, in denying over 100 people entry to the U.S. on the basis of biometric scans...
Ridge also touched upon the implementation of the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS). According to Ridge, DHS has partnered with colleges and universities in order to provide “far superior security” in the last couple of years...
...Republic of Georgia, he was arrested for felony sexual assault in January 2002 when his accuser, an aquaintance, alleged that he had pulled her into his room and raped her. A visit to his jail cell in the aftermath by a Harvard official was appropriately curt: withdraw, his visitor told him, or face a worse punishment from the GSE’s version of the Ad Board, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, Zedginidze recalled...
...again exposed Russia's vulnerability to terrorism. While Russian law requires nonresidents of Moscow to report to police on arrival and state their business, Russian police and security structures are so corrupt that Chechen fighters can move around the capital with little fear of getting caught. Any unofficial visitor, including young Chechen males, can easily stay as long as they want merely by paying the odd $3 to $6 bribe. The guerrillas who carried out the Moscow theater siege in October 2002 even had their own weapons and explosives trucked in from Chechnya. Last week's bombing, says Lilia Shevtsova...
According to the DHS, the scanning adds on average only 15 seconds to the time it takes a visitor to go through Immigration. (An exception is made for Canadians and travellers who may visit the U.S. under the visa waiver program.) Upon exit, there also soon will be a “checkout” system whereby visitors will be able to repeat the digital “fingerscanning” at self-operated kiosks, thus confirming departure...