Aero-News: Quote of the Day

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"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.

FMI: www.dhs.gov, www.airlines.org