Reform Immigration Through Biometrics Act

This bill requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to send Congress a report within 180 days on the status of the biometric entry and exit data system used to track travelers entering and leaving the United States. The report must cover wait times, private-sector device audits and consultation, milestones, risks, and the system's effects on travel, trade, counterterrorism, and identifying visa violators. A second report must explain how the system matches departing travelers' biometric data to data they gave earlier, without including information on U.S. citizens except to describe their facial recognition privacy protections. A third report must address whether biographic data from Canada's border agency under a 2011 agreement has been shared and what effects it had. The bill also directs that biometric collection cause the least possible disruption to the movement of people and cargo.

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Sponsors

• Byron Donalds Republican sponsor
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