Sec. 4. Expansion of preclearance at foreign airports
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Congress makes the following findings: Preclearance operations provide the ultimate ability for the United States to address potential threats at the earliest possible moment and prior to departure, through the forward deployment of officers of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to last points of departure in a foreign country. With inspections and examination operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection located in a foreign country, preclearance provides the capability to interdict, address, and work with host-country law enforcement in furtherance of both aviation security and border security in the United States.
Under current preclearance operations, officers of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection collect biometrics in the same way that is currently done upon arrival in the United States, in accordance with current regulation, and as part of the routine entry process from certain aliens who are not citizens of the United States prior to boarding flights destined to the United States. Preclearance operations provide the best means for existing and future biometric security capabilities beyond the United States.
Support for preclearance expansion will greatly increase border and aviation security in the United States and foreign countries. It is the sense of Congress that each country designated as a visa waiver program country under section 217 of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1187 ) should seek to participate in the preclearance program with the United States, to jointly address security concerns through additional exchange of information and to improve joint ability to secure the that visa waiver program while maintaining the original intent of the program.
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