I will support the amendment. but I am under no illusion that the amendment will actually achieve what the author hopes. Over 5 years ago. before there was a Department of Homeland Security. I strongly suggested to the then immigration service that we engage in a biometric study so that we would have a secure biometric system that could be deployed and would be both with our immigration screening systems and also with other databases. We were told by the National Institute of Standards and Technology that they could accomplish that in 6 months for about $2 million. Unfortunately. we never did it. So we now have biometrics that are incompatible in various databases. law enforcement. immigration. and certain other databases that we have. Consequently. even the system that we have on USVISIT is not fully functional. I would like to note also that the databases that are utilized by USVISIT are also not integrated.
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