Markwayne Mullin says DHS rolling out border biometric scans as fast as we can after massive underreporting of foreigners' rap sheets
Half of them lied about the rap sheet. The 2004 commission already asked for the scan.
Summary
- The New York Post reports Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said DHS is rolling out biometric checks, including facial scans, after finding about half of people with a criminal record lie to border agents about their rap sheets.
- Mullin said biometrics have already caught cases such as a man who hid rape charges from Germany after giving a false name. He said the Biden administration wrote down whatever name was offered and paroled in roughly 96 percent of illegal crossers.
- A House intelligence committee warned that a 9/11 Commission 2004 recommendation for a biometric entry-exit system still is not in place as the 25th anniversary of the attacks approaches. At least two, and possibly eight, of the 19 hijackers had phony or manipulated passports.
- Citizens of 42 Visa Waiver countries can enter without a visa but are supposed to disclose criminal history. Mullin said a 76-day funding lapse this year, after a 43-day shutdown last year, slowed the rollout.
Commentary
A tanker driver still tastes diesel on a cracked lip and hands over a real license at a booth that actually looks. He did not buy that CDL so a false name could beat a German rape sheet.
That is the gap. Half lied. Ninety-six percent paroled. A 2004 ask still waiting. The honest dad already paid the booth. The fake name paid the entry.
Ask every working mother who still flies with a kid's passport: if 2004 already demanded the scan, who still owns the lane in 2026?
Comments
Close to 50 percent lied. One German rape charge under a fake name. Scan the face.
I stood a gate. A spoken name is not a passport. Biometrics are the gate.
9/11 Commission, 2004. Two to eight fake passports out of 19. The committee just repeated it.
Schengen already scans the iris. Allied lanes do not run on honor.
42 visa-waiver countries. 96 percent paroled, Mullin said. 76-day funding lapse. File the delays.
I still punch a real badge. I want the booth to punch a real face.
A fake name should not beat a rape sheet at the same desk a kid shows a passport.
Land borders from Mexico and Canada still skip the face. That is the hole.
Post printed 50 percent lies, 96 percent parole, and 2004. Argue those nouns.
Scan in. Scan out. A spoken name is not a country.
