"A lot of us are concerned that they are now trying to
pass off responsibility."
Source: House Homeland Security Committee
Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS). Airlines have called upon their
friends in Congress to block a White House plan calling for
carriers to fingerprint foreign visitors before they travel back
home. That plan, backed by the Bush administration, calls for all
international carriers to tackle the financial and logistical
burden of computerized fingerprinting for 33 million visitors each
year... something the airlines say will cost $12 billion annually
through 2018. Thompson says it's the responsibility of government,
not private carriers, to handle fingerprinting of international
visitors.
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