Comment Submitted by Thomas E. Truett III

I have quite a long and positive relationship with the USCBP in Columbia, SC and I believe that they and other members of your organization that are in the field will tell the individuals at the "policy making level" that this is at best an impossibly impractical proposal and at worst an Orwellian attempt to control where the American people go when they leave our borders. If you do not want us to go to a particular area or place for fear of bringing back someone intent on doing us harm don't couch that desire in a procedure that is impossible to comply with in the hopes that we just won't go there. WE are not that stupid. You are concerned about someone in this country getting into a "private" plane and going outside our borders and returning with terrorists? You've already made it virtually impossible to train foreign nationals to fly without your knowledge. I was born and raised in South Carolina and had to obtain proof that my best friend, with whom I'd grown up, was a U.S. citizen... I believe that anyone who wants to use a private aircraft to accomplish what you are so concerned might happen would have to steal an aircraft to do it. You are tracking everyone who enters and leaves this country as it is, don't try to control WHERE we go as well!