Immigration Law and RFID Tags to Prevent Illegal Aliens, Human Trafficking and Drugs

There is some debate about the use of radio frequency identification tags to be used on humans or to prevent illegal aliens from crossing our borders. One of the ideas is to use RFID tags, which would be to use them in combination with biometric cards that each person who comes to visit at the border should carry with them at all times.

You may not have known it, but there are 23 million visitors who come to the United States each year and that number is growing. Every year 15 million visitors arrive from Mexico and Canada and the authorities want to know who enters our country and why. They also want to make sure people who have VISAs or passes don’t stay longer on their visits, and if they do, they want them to double-check and re-register to extend their visit.

 

RFID tags would not only be used to prevent legal and illegal people from entering the country, but would also be used to stop human and drug trafficking. There are more than seven million cargo containers that enter our country each year and we cannot review them all, but with RFID tags we could. Recently, we have installed special scanning machines to look inside these cargo containers, but sometimes that is not even enough.

 

Some security authorities from the Department of Homeland Security had suggested that perhaps these RFID tags would help us track every person entering our country. But immigration law professors, as well as constitutional attorneys, believe this scheme is too much. So that’s the latest in immigration law and the world of RFID tags. Please think about this.