U.S. Steps Up Screening of Visitors With Visas
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From Times Wire Reports
Starting next year, people from foreign lands arriving with visas at U.S. airports or seaports will have their travel documents scanned, their fingerprints and photos taken and their identification checked against terrorist watch lists.
Such a system could have stopped two of the Sept. 11 hijackers, said Asa Hutchinson, the Bush team’s border and transportation security chief.
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