US to fingerprint all visitors.

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Re: US to fingerprint all visitors.

@LuxuryItem

I am not disagreeing with you at all. I think criminilizing Muslim US citizens at the US-Canada border posts, or any domestic airports is unfair and counter productive just like criminalizing visitors to the country.

My contention is that people, especially non-muslim US citizens, say two things:

• for the safety of my family, I’ll support “criminilization” of any US muslim citizen or visitor.

• if America is so bad, why do people keep coming to our doorsteps?

No one has said America is bad, I have always maintained that the founding principles of America are great, in the true sense of the word. I majored in US history and have great admiration for the political ideas of the FF, esp Jefferson and James Madison, who first espoused representative govt as we’d recognize it in any western sense.

BUT, my quam is with what the US is doing now. People put up with it, I’d imagine for simple economic reasons, they can make money in the US. Most immigrants I’d wager come from Latin America, or the developing world further afield, and have little alternative.

Such actions as taking credit details, prints, ID’s…these are the basis on which police states are formed. This is a slide into gestapo territory, and it threatens to happen in what was (past tense deliberate) a beacon of hope in terms of meritocratic and democratic governance.

What would James Madison say?