Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I thought you were a US citizen for some reason (probably your perfect English). At least you weren't photographed simply because of your ethnicity. I thought the US learned its lesson last century with that gaff (Korematsu v. United States). I'm not sure they are on firm ground with the special attention being paid to middle-eastern-looking people. Hope they treat them better than they treated the not-very-middle-eastern-looking Ted Grant. Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Karen Nakamura Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 12:47 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] What would you do if this happened to you? I was fingerprinted and photographed on re-entry into the U.S. last week. It wasn't a hassle. The photograph was taken by something that looked liked one of those videocams that you can buy at CircuitCity for $30 (with a $30 rebate) and the fingerprint was a digital fingerprint (inkless system) of my left and right index fingers. Everyone was polite and it was minimal hassle. They're only photoing/fingerpinting people who need visas to re-enter. I'm on a H1B visa so that's why I had to get it. Most Japanese and European tourists on the 90-day visa waiver don't need to go through it. People who looked like they came from the middle east were apparently all being taken into a separate room, from what I could tell. Karen -- Karen Nakamura http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/ _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information