*The Coast Guard has begun the expansion of its Biometrics-at-Sea Program to the Florida Straits after spending over a year collecting fingerprints and photographs from illegal migrants attempting to cross the Mona Passage from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico. The Coast Guard said last fall that it would be expanding the program to South Florida (TR2, Nov. 28, 2007). Since the program began in November 2006 the Coast Guard has collected biometric data from 1,513 migrants, which has resulted…
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