{"id":4672,"date":"2013-09-20T11:24:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T15:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=4672"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:37:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:37:20","slug":"smartphones-now-more-secure-than-americas-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/09\/20\/smartphones-now-more-secure-than-americas-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphones Now More Secure than America\u2019s Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"New<\/a>Twelve years after it was required by the PATRIOT Act, the government could not be farther from implementing the biometric entry-exit system<\/a>, and Congress refuses to force it to act<\/a>. Meanwhile, the U.S. lacks any reliable system<\/a> to ensure foreign visitors and temporary workers do not remain in the country once their visas have expired<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gang of Eight members<\/a> and other supporters of the Senate amnesty bill have lots of excuses for abandoning a biometric entry-exit system in S. 744. They\u2019ve said it\u2019s too costly \u2013 a new report<\/a> from the Center for Immigration Studies proves otherwise – and that a biometric \u201ctrigger\u201d would postpone amnesty indefinitely (oh, darn). During mark-up hearings of the Senate bill in May, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) claimed \u201cthere are technological barriers\u201d to implementing a biometric entry-exit system.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, private industry innovators<\/a> have called the Senators\u2019 bluff<\/a>. Today, Apple releases<\/a> a new smartphone equipped to read the fingerprints<\/a> of multiple users. This technology will now be at the fingertips of consumers, pun intended, so why won\u2019t the Administration make creating the biometric entry-exit system required by law a priority?<\/p>\n

Clearly, the current Department of Homeland Security leadership is more interested in using its alleged insufficient resources to process deferred action applications for illegal aliens and review cases of those already ordered deported<\/a>, rather than faithfully executing the law. If Congress made implementing the biometric entry-exit system a priority\u2014instead of using its time and energy to draft and debate bills granting amnesty to 12 million illegal aliens while doubling guest workers at a time of record unemployment\u2014it could actually make them.