<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by skofarrell:
Most INS agents don't like the machines. They see them as a way to eliminate jobs.
Given they way things have gone with bank tellers, their fear may be well founded.</font>
This may be the case for some. However, I spoke with an immagrations guy who felt down the road, they will remove the machines and put a plam reader at each check through station. This will allow the agent to verify your palm print and also look through your passport to see where you have been. This is a problem at the moment with the machines. If you have been to somewhere you should not have been, or a place that should put you on a watch list, the machine would never know. Besides, for safety, the palm print is best, you cant fake a plam print, passports can be forges, after NY, we all know this is the case.