Checking people crossing the border is fine, but making the data available so
broadly that it includes civil matters is invasive as is retention of the records for 15
years unless the check provided reason for suspicion regarding an actual breech
of the law.
Regulations such as these are going to boomerang on the partisans who support
them, probably leading to a reversal that in fact goes too far in the other direction.
Withdraw these regulations and write some that will withstand the test of time and
use.
Comment Submitted by George S. Wilkerson
This is comment on Notice
Privacy Act of 1974; U.S. Customs and Border Protection--Border Crossing Information, Systems of Records
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