Ashcroft Touts Alien Registration System

NPR | By Jennifer Ludden

Published November 7, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Attorney General Ashcroft praises a new registration system requiring fingerprints and photos of citizens from Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Libya and Syria as they arrive on U.S. soil. Several Arab countries denounce the program as racial profiling. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports.

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