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Monday, October 01, 2001

Tracking immigrants relies in part on forms distributed by flight attendants

"K-mart knows every product purchased every day by the minute and that's billions of products, but we can't track millions of people who come into this country. If you could just have caught a few of them at the border or with better tracking, then the entire conspiracy may have begun to unravel."

New Jersey Star-Ledger. "Visitors arriving and departing the country through Mexico or Canada are not recorded. Those entering through U.S. airports must fill out a form, known as an I-94, which is then stapled into their passport. When they leave, the forms are collected by airline workers, who then forward them to the INS. A 1995 report by the U.S. General Accounting Office found that in many cases, the airlines fail to collect the forms, the forms are lost or the handwriting on them is illegible."'

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