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VMA131Marine

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1. This would have been difficult to impossible to implement

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Dec 5, 2019, 11:40 PM

Dec 2019

You don’t go through a passport checkpoint when leaving the country because national and international flights leave from the same terminals. It would have required a major infrastructure change at US airports to separate out international passengers to take all their pictures.

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