Foreign Travelers Face Fingerprints and Jet Lag

[Peter Gutmann]

"R. A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com> writes:

>NEWARK, Sept. 30 - Laetitia Bohn walked into Newark Liberty International
>Airport on Thursday, dazed and sleepy after an eight-hour flight from Paris,
>and was jolted from her reverie when an immigration officer asked for her
>photograph and fingerprints along with her passport.

The US now has the dubious distinction of being more obnoxious to get through
the borders than the former East Germany (actually even without this measure,
the checks had become at least as obnoxious as the East German ones).  I
wonder whether the next step will be building a wall...

Peter (who'll be thinking really hard about any future conference trips to the
       US).