Being fingerprinted/photographed when traveling abroad: what do you guys think?

[Ichirou]

I'm going to have to go through this when I come back from holidays in the US to Japan...they just instituted the same system the US has for foreigners coming into the country - fingerprinting and photographing.  How would you guys feel if you were forced to do that when traveling abroad?  I'm vaguely repulsed by the idea.

[bagofeyes]

I don't really have anything against it as a person coming into the country. But, as they are also going to use the data in a big registry to track foreigners living within the country and thus being made an automatic suspect in criminal cases, I think they should get fucked.

[Ichirou]

According to Japanese people, if it weren't for foreigners there'd apparently be no crime in Japan.

[brawndolicious]

that's pretty fucked up.  I heard recently that britain is also going to do something like this but they're doing it with citizens and foreigners.

[Ichirou]

They do it in the US too, I've just never experienced it 'cuz I'm an AMURRRRCAN.

[demi]

According to Japanese people, if it weren't for foreigners there'd apparently be no crime in Japan.

If it weren't for foreigners they would still have Hiroshima and Nagasaki - PWNED in their place

USA

[Ichirou]

omg, that comment would so get you permabanned in a certain forum filled with politically correct douchebaggery.

[Phoenix Dark]

According to Japanese people, if it weren't for foreigners there'd apparently be no crime in Japan.

If it weren't for foreigners they would still have Hiroshima and Nagasaki - PWNED in their place

USA

 

[brawndolicious]

I thought you were a citizen?

[Synbios459]

Got to keep the am nintenhos from blowing people up.

[bagofeyes]

So this has started now. I wonder if the people instructing on the use of the machines speak English as well as the regular immigration officials...  'You live Japan?'  'Yeah'  'Ok, go'

[Ichirou]

Ditto.  To be honest, I'd never considered how humiliating this must be for non-US citizens traveling to the States for tourism or business, so this gives me a new perspective on the whole thing.

[Smooth Groove]

Ditto.  To be honest, I'd never considered how humiliating this must be for non-US citizens traveling to the States for tourism or business, so this gives me a new perspective on the whole thing.

They have their loser parents to blame for not being Americans.  God bless America!

[bagofeyes]

The only times I've had problems at airports is going back to my own country. Australian immigration are fucking cunts.