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Volume 27
September 2018 Edition
A man trying to enter the US illegally was arrested at Washington Dulles International Airport was exposed by new
facial recognition technology on only the third day following deployment. Upon secondary inspection, CBP officers
found the man’s authentic Republic of Congo identification card concealed in his shoe. (Courtesy of CBP)
NEC Facial Recognition Catching
‘US’ Impostors at DC Airport
On only the third day using its new
cutting-edge facial comparison bio-
metric system, U.S. Customs and
Border Protection (CBP), Office of
Field Operations (OFO) at Wash-
ington Dulles International Airport
(IAD) intercepted an imposter pos-
ing as a French Citizen.
On August 22, 2018, a 26-year-old man pre-
sented a French passport to border protec-
tion officials after arriving in Washington,
D.C., from Sao Paulo.
But a recently installed facial biometric
system warned that the traveler didn’t
match the presented passport and a sec-
ondary screen revealed he had his au-
thentic identification card from the Re-
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