US DHS data collection for leaving Non-US citizens

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The Department of Homeland Security is set to begin a biometric identification exit pilot program at ten major US airports, targeted at specific classes of non-US citizens. Under the pilot, which will last one year, Customs Border Protection agents will stand at departure gates at select airports and “utilize wireless handheld devices to collect biographic and biometric information from certain aliens upon departure, biometrically record their departure, and screen their biometric data against a DHS biometric database in real time,” according to a DHS general notice in the federal register. (https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2015-18418.pdf)

Airports are:


Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, California;
San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California;
Miami International Airport, Miami, Florida;
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, Georgia;
Chicago O’Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois;
Newark Liberty International Airport, Newark, New Jersey;
John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica, New York;
Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, Dallas, Texas;
George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, Texas; and
Washington Dulles International Airport, Sterling, Virginia.