DHS has begun finger-printing non-US citizens leaving the country from Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson and Detroit’s Metropolitan Wayne County airports.
The department credits biometrics with helping prevent the use of bogus documents and stopping criminals and immigration violators from entering the country. It says exit tracking would let it know for sure if certain people have not left the country when they were supposed to.
Customs and Border Protection will finger print foreign citizens leaving from Atlanta and TSA officers will do the collecting in Detroit through early July.
USVISIT plans to begin implementing new biometric exit procedures based on these pilots for non-U.S. citizens departing the US by air within the next year as it works to establish an automated biometric exit capability.