The two main justifications for adding chips to passports are that they improve security at border crossings and speed up immigration procedures.

有两个主要说辞支持在护照中加入芯片：提高边境口岸的安全性与加快入境手续办理。

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The two main justifications for adding chips to passports are that they improve security at border crossings and speed up immigration procedures. Your correspondent thinks this is poppycock.

有两个主要说辞支持在护照中加入芯片：提高边境口岸的安全性与加快入境手续办理。本刊记者认为这纯粹是胡扯。

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Other critics say the administration is soft on illegal immigration, pointing to recent moves to use executive powers to change immigration procedures without altering the law.

WSJ: U.S. Arrests More Than 3,100 Illegal Immigrants

Some experts also blame lax public health procedures at immigration control for the rise in TB in developed countries.

BBC: TB: The killer returns

Frequent travelers can bypass immigration procedures at nearly a dozen North American airports by registering their palm prints with the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

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