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'''Fortress America''', the January 6, 2004, [http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17484 article] by <i>AlterNet</i>'s Farai Chideya , comes begins with the opening statement "I'm glad I got to see the world before it closed up shop."
The reason for this being that, on that day, as Chideya says, "the United States began photographing and [http://et.nmsu.edu/~etti/summer97/security/finger.html fingerprinting] non-U.S. citizens as they entered the country." Named [[US-VISIT]] for "United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology", the program is intended to target an annual "estimated 24 million individuals [who will] have to pass two finger scans and have their photographs taken as they enter the United States" in the hopes of catching "[[terrorist]]s and those who overstay their visas."
