Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press freedom alarms

Re:Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press... by TillE on Friday December 02, 2016 @04:43PM (#13092586)

It's usually a pretty grim experience even as a citizen reentering the US, but at least we're not required to give our fingerprints. I would never travel to a country which demanded that.

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Re:Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press... by harshreality on Friday December 02, 2016 @05:00PM (#13092707)

I don't know about your state, but a few years ago mine started requiring a full set of fingerprints for driver's license renewal.

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Re:Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press... by edmccard on Friday December 02, 2016 @06:00PM (#13093075)

>a few years ago mine started requiring a full set of fingerprints for driver's license renewal.

Is it Texas? I think they gave up on that last year:

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/news/2015/02/06/texas-dps-sto...

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Re:Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press... by 0xC0DECAFE2020 on Saturday December 03, 2016 @03:56AM (#13095023)

Texas still does fingerprints at the DMV. I'm amazed how many texans have no clue until they renew.

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Re:Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press... by Symbiote on Saturday December 03, 2016 @08:35AM (#13095590)

It was years ago, but I think I had my fingerprints taken to enter the USA. I'm British.

Plenty of articles about it online. I used to be involved with organising meetings for scientists, and we'd never arrange one in the USA because of the hostility towards foreigners, particularly from Africa.

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Re:Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press... by Swizec on Friday December 02, 2016 @04:48PM (#13092619)

Economic prosperity vs not giving up my fingerprints.

Hmmmmmm

Seemed like an easy decision when getting my visa and every time I reenter.

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