The U. S.immigration and NaturalizationService (INS) USESRSI hand geometry scanners to allowover 60,000 frequent travelers to bypass immigration lines (through the INSPASSprogram).
When the Department of Homeland Security was created as part of the "war on terror, " the old Immigration and NaturalizationService(INS) was subsumed into the agency, and the repackaged bureaucracy was put back in the loop (the State Department is the access point for visas).
The indictment alleges that the system of payments defrauded the FEC because the watchdog agency was given false information about the source on contributions, and the Immigration and NaturalizationService(INS) because it was not told the source was a non-U.S. citizen so that the agency would permit the "conduits" to enter or remain in the United States.
It also alleges that the system of payments defrauded the FEC and the Immigration and NaturalizationService(INS), stating the FEC was given false information about the source of contributions and the INS was not told the source was a non-U.S. citizen so that the agency would permit the "conduits" to enter or remain in the United States.