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New Border Fingerprinting System Is Likely To Create Confusion

A new immigrant tracking program, known as US VISIT, can only increase confusion among immigrants to the U.S. in terms of when, where and how they have to register with the government, and will do nothing to end discriminatory tracking of Arabs and Muslims based on national origin and religion.
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