The Anti-Defamation League is supporting a new U.S. program to track terrorists. “Entry into the U.S. is not a right, it is a privilege, one that is granted by a sovereign state,” Abraham Foxman, the ADL’s national director, said in reaction to a newly invoked law, originating in the 1950s, that will require as many as 100,000 visitors to the United States to be fingerprinted, photographed and registered.
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