Brazil begins fingerprinting US travellers

[rooboy]

Brazil has begun fingerprinting and photographing US visitors on the orders of a judge who compared planned US security controls on travellers from Brazil and other nations to Nazi horrors.

Federal Judge Julier Sebastiao da Silva, furious at US plans to fingerprint and photograph millions of visitors on entering the United States, ordered Brazil's authorities do the same to US citizens.

"We've begun doing this," a federal police spokeswoman at Brazil's Guarulhos International Airport in Sao Paulo said.

The judge's order came after a Brazilian Government citizen rights agency filed a complaint in federal court over the US measure.

The US-VISIT system is meant to identify people who have violated immigration controls, have a criminal record or belong to groups the US Government lists as terrorist organisations.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1019249.htm

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Ah yes backlash

I wonder who will be next, honest...

[Kolesar]

2. Maybe they are trying to keep the CIA from subverting President Lula

There were some threats against Brazil during the FTAA discussions. President Chavez of Venezuela claims that the US was responsible for the coup against him in April 2002.

[MercutioATC]

3. Brazil kicks ass.

Canadian ATC is charging airlines for flying through their airspace, while we provide the same service to Canadian (and all other) airlines free of charge. I think the BEST thing we could do is to tell Canada that we're charging their airlines the same rate that they're charging us per mile. Wanna bet Canada would stop charging?

If you don't like what somebody makes "law", apply it to them. Most of the time, they'll back down.