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Julio Nivelo was a convicted felon prior to this crime and deported four times. Four times! Obviously something is broken. Perhaps improving border security isn't such a bad idea?

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You hear stories like this all the time, it’s absurd. He was able to enter subsequent times because he used other people’s passports. Wtf?? Why is CBP taking pictures of our face, scans of our retinas, and fingerprints every time we cross the border, if they can’t even use that data to identify a felon coming into the country under a different name??

Sometimes I’m concerned about dragnet surveillance and the police state, but then I realize how incompetent the government is at doing its job. Honestly that might be the scarier part than the surveillance...

If you behave lawful, you'll create one single tracking history for everything tied to your real life person. If you don't, you apparently can get away with stuff like that AND on top of that you won't create a single, coherent stream of data for big brother.

These are fucked up incentives.

That’s a good point. Surveillance is more likely to result in false positive identification of law abiding citizens than of criminals, simply due to higher availability of data.

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