Comment Submitted by Anonymous

I am uncomfortable with this policy. A reasonable level of oversight is necessary, but I believe that holding information about border crossings for fifteen years-- for American citizens-- goes beyond reasonable and begins to treat citizens like criminals. I think we have put up with a great deal of invasions and suspicions over the years and I think the American people deserve some trust-- or at least salutary neglect-- from their government. Beyond my concern for my basic right to anonymity, I am concerned with the measures of this plan related to database access on the state level. Have we not learned from our many national mistakes with hacking into the government's system?-- what huberous to think this database system will be infallible, inaccessible? what terrible myopia to assume that this time, these records won't be stolen. I wouldn't trust the government to do alot of things-- and reasonably so, that's why we've set up our lovely checks and balances-- and one of the things I do not trust the government to do is keep my private information private or secure. Please do not put this program into effect-- G-d knows I won't be voting Republican this year.