Readings: High-Tech `Green Card` The high-tech ‘green card’ is issued to protect against fraud an help employers to comply with U.S. immigration law. Lawful permanent residents are allowed to issue this card as evidence of their authorization to live and work in the U.S. It incorporates a lot of security features: digital images, holograms, micro printing, and an optical memory strip. Its production requires a unique combination of state-of-the-art technologies that has never before been used. This new card is called the Permanent Resident Card (previously named the Alien Registration Receipt card. The card’s visible security features will make it easier for employers to verify the card’s authenticity and that it relates to the person presenting it. The card also has many features not readily observable but which can be identified by INS officers, increasing the card’s resistance to counterfeiting and tampering.
El Paso, Texas Police Department (TBD), It is scheduled to receive the Uncooled Thermal Imaging Technology in the near future. The uncooled-hand held thermal imaging (TISIGHT) is very useful in locating suspects hiding in the underbrush and finding narcotics hidden from view. The main uses are crime prevention application (car theft, juvenile crime); found missing children; indoor marijuana grows, drug traffic "patterns"; and located armed suspects, among other.
X-Ray technology now in El Paso http://www.customs.treas.gov/text/hot-new/pressrel/1998/0326-00.htm Fixed and mobile truck x-ray systems are a technologically advanced system that uses the "flying spot" technology that is extremely safe for operating personnel more than some medical x-ray. It forms two kinds of x-ray images, a transmission image and a back scatter image, this gives operators and excellent view of the vehicle being scanned. It can inspect approximately eight full size tractor-trailer trucks per hour. Customs in El Paso has 2 site truck x-ray systems and they expect to get a mobile x-ray and gamma ray examination technology in the future. |