Unless, of course, they're from a 'friendly' country like the UK, in which case we have a 'Visa Waiver' allowing us to fill in a form and be waved on through (OK, since 9/11 I have to have a fingerprint scan and photo on entry).
Now, understandably, the US Homeland Security guys are questioning this, since it's now clear that terrorists can easily be born-and-raised Brits, Germans etc.
We had English boys blowing up London on 7/7/5 and just convicted 5 more of trying the same thing on 21/7/5. Madrid had the same back in March a year or 2 before. So we accept that not all of what Prez Bush appears to call 'tourists' are from "Brownskinistan".
So there are options under discussion.
1 - Pfft. Fingers crossed. We'll be fine.
2 - Scrap the Visa Waiver scheme
3 - Introduce 'profiling' and make brown/muslim/odd people apply for visas
Now I know the NYT has suggested, that Washington are proposing option 3, but in fairness, a Whitehouse spokesman told the BBC that this is a BullShit story.
Anyhoo
Should the Visa Waiver Scheme continue for 'Friendly States'?
Yes.: | 5 (17.9%) | |
No. Scrap it now: | 10 (35.7%) | |
Lock down the borders! Everyone in the Tourist industry is ghey anyway!: | 4 (14.3%) | |
Make it selective based on the ethnic/religious/political profile of the visitor: | 3 (10.7%) | |
I don't give an Otter's cervix!: | 6 (21.4%) | |
Total: | 28 |
Edited, May 2nd 2007 7:04pm by Nobby