World Opinion Is Fragmented on Tighter Security for Visitors

New security procedures designed to prevent potential terrorists from entering the United States have met with mixed reaction around the globe. Beginning this week, the US is requiring that visitors from all but 27 countries be fingerprinted and photographed upon entry to the US. Washington is also pushing foreign and American carriers to accept armed US marshals on board US-bound airplanes. The measures have elicited both support and outrage around the globe. Official reactions in countries like France, Germany, and Israel, which have had similar security measures for some time, have been quite supportive. "I prefer that we are reproached for having too many security measures than too few," said the French interior minister. In other places, however, reactions have ranged from verbal protests to legal action. One Brazilian judge retaliated by ordering all Americans entering Brazil to be photographed and fingerprinted, calling the new measures "absolutely brutal, threatening human rights, violating human dignity, xenophobic and worthy of the worst horrors committed by the Nazis." – YaleGlobal