US Immigration Exit Tracking
Mar 18, 2012, 5:22 pm
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Mar 19, 2012, 6:26 am
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At least with proper exit controls at airports the US could introduce international sterile zones that introduce international to international transfers without passing through border or custom controls.
Mar 19, 2012, 8:36 am
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Not quite. All Schengen countries have exit controls in place. The reason you don't get controls when travelling through a lot of continental Europe is because of Schengen.
At least with proper exit controls at airports the US could introduce international sterile zones that introduce international to international transfers without passing through border or custom controls.
At least with proper exit controls at airports the US could introduce international sterile zones that introduce international to international transfers without passing through border or custom controls.
Also, most US airports are not designed for such allowances.
Not all countries within the Schengen zone have physical exit controls in place, even as most of them do.
Mar 19, 2012, 9:17 am
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I can't remember the last time I even stopped at a land border let alone got controlled.
Mar 19, 2012, 9:19 am
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It will not happen in the US. You would have to rebuild a huge number of airports, building new terminals, staffing the new terminals, all of that. It's not just the huge airports, where it would cost tens or even a hundred billion dollars to create new "international" terminals. A lot of small airports have international flights to Canada and Mexico, and you would need to rebuild those as well.
It's a solution in search of a problem, like having TSA working checkpoints for subways and train stations.
It's a solution in search of a problem, like having TSA working checkpoints for subways and train stations.
Mar 19, 2012, 9:20 am
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Once you leave a Schengen zone country for a non-Schengen country there are exit controls. For example from Poland into Belarus, from Greece into Turkey, from Hungary into Serbia, from Spain into Morocco.
Mar 19, 2012, 9:21 am
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Not all countries within the Schengen zone have physical exit controls in place, even as most of them do.
Mar 19, 2012, 11:16 am
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Also, even for some intra-Schengen travel, sometimes there are exit and/or entry controls, including but not limited to searches conducted for land border crossings.
Yesterday, customs had dogs checking trains and train passengers for Denmark-Sweden crossings -- even took over bathrooms!
Mar 19, 2012, 11:23 am
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It will not happen in the US. You would have to rebuild a huge number of airports, building new terminals, staffing the new terminals, all of that. It's not just the huge airports, where it would cost tens or even a hundred billion dollars to create new "international" terminals. A lot of small airports have international flights to Canada and Mexico, and you would need to rebuild those as well.
It's a solution in search of a problem, like having TSA working checkpoints for subways and train stations.
It's a solution in search of a problem, like having TSA working checkpoints for subways and train stations.
There's not only the financial cost for new physical plant allowances, there is also the costs that arise from not catering to the national paranoia about letting people transit the country by air without being always checked by US DHS types -- the emotionally-driven costs are what have already killed airside international tranist sections in the US.
Mar 19, 2012, 3:33 pm
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An example would be SAN. It's a small airport, but it's seeing lots of international growth from BA flights like LHR-SAN and even JAL starting NRT-SAN service end of this year. Trying to do this would involve spending millions in upgrading SAN for a dedicated international terminal or, revoking SAN from flying international flights.
May 20, 2013, 2:50 pm
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New Airport Exit Controls for International Visitors
I am curious about how the proposed exit fingerprinting at airports would work.
http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/...ry?id=19217524
It seems like airports in the US are not set up in a way with exit passport control, as they are in other countries.
Also--how does this make things more secure if it only takes place in the 30 busiest airports?
http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/...ry?id=19217524
It seems like airports in the US are not set up in a way with exit passport control, as they are in other countries.
Also--how does this make things more secure if it only takes place in the 30 busiest airports?
May 20, 2013, 4:59 pm
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