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Steps to Protect U.S. From Terrorist Attacks Having Impact on People Coming into Country

Aired January 02, 2004 - 05:33   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Steps to protect the United States from terrorist attacks are having an impact on people coming into this country.
And as our senior international editor Eli Flournoy is about to tell us, there could be some retaliation -- so what's this all about?

ELI FLOURNOY, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: Yes, some retaliation already, actually, starting yesterday. In Brazil, at the Sao Paulo Airport, on the orders of a Brazilian federal judge, they began fingerprinting and photographing U.S. citizens coming into Brazil. Brazil, of course, is on the list of 27 countries that the United States, as part of the homeland security bill, will be -- when Brazilians come to the United States, they, starting on January 5th, will be fingerprinted and photographed and that -- so that started yesterday. Today, there's going to be more of that.

COSTELLO: So people from the United States coming into Brazil are being photographed and fingerprinted?

FLOURNOY: That's correct. Yes. It's a retaliation measure, what they call a reciprocal measure...

COSTELLO: Oh, OK.

FLOURNOY: ... immigration...

COSTELLO: Now I understand.

FLOURNOY: So they, the Brazilians obviously were not happy about being added to this list of 27 countries who would have to have their citizens fingerprinted and photographed when they come into the United States.

Also, the previous measure was that they would be required to have visas, which Brazilians previously did not have to have a visa to come into the United States. So Brazil also reciprocally now requires United States citizens to have a visa to come into Brazil. So it's kind of a tit for tat, but it's all -- it falls into the homeland security...

COSTELLO: It might be short-sighted on Brazil's part, because doesn't a lot of tourists come from the United States to Brazil?

FLOURNOY: They do. They do, both, and both ways, actually. A lot of tourists from Brazil come to the United States and likewise a lot of the United States citizens like to go to Brazil. So from, certainly, tourism officials are not happy about it on either side...

COSTELLO: No.

FLOURNOY: ... because it's not going to be helpful no matter what, from their point of view. It just is another aggravation, you know, another thing that hinders the tourist trade.

COSTELLO: Understood.

Word on Indonesia, too, this morning.

FLOURNOY: Yes, actually, in Haiti...

COSTELLO: I'm sorry, Haiti.

FLOURNOY: Yes, in Haiti we're looking out today again for more protests. Yesterday -- and I think we have some video -- they were marking yesterday the 200th anniversary of independence from France. Yesterday, there were some pretty intense protests against the government of Jean Bertrand Aristide. We have our Ingrid Arnison (ph) there, who's keeping an eye on things in Haiti. They got kind of violent yesterday with about 5,000 protesters out in the capital. And we just have heard reports this morning that an advance helicopter team, a security team for South African President Thabo Mbeki received some gunfire and has prevented -- Thabo Mbeki is there for the celebrations, but has prevented his visit to one of Haiti's cities because of security concerns.

So things are looking kind of dicey there. We're going to be keeping an eye on that and see whether the protesters are back out in force again today.

COSTELLO: Will do.

Thank you, Eli.

FLOURNOY: Thank you.

COSTELLO: We appreciate it.

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Aired January 2, 2004 - 05:33   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Steps to protect the United States from terrorist attacks are having an impact on people coming into this country.
And as our senior international editor Eli Flournoy is about to tell us, there could be some retaliation -- so what's this all about?

ELI FLOURNOY, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: Yes, some retaliation already, actually, starting yesterday. In Brazil, at the Sao Paulo Airport, on the orders of a Brazilian federal judge, they began fingerprinting and photographing U.S. citizens coming into Brazil. Brazil, of course, is on the list of 27 countries that the United States, as part of the homeland security bill, will be -- when Brazilians come to the United States, they, starting on January 5th, will be fingerprinted and photographed and that -- so that started yesterday. Today, there's going to be more of that.

COSTELLO: So people from the United States coming into Brazil are being photographed and fingerprinted?

FLOURNOY: That's correct. Yes. It's a retaliation measure, what they call a reciprocal measure...

COSTELLO: Oh, OK.

FLOURNOY: ... immigration...

COSTELLO: Now I understand.

FLOURNOY: So they, the Brazilians obviously were not happy about being added to this list of 27 countries who would have to have their citizens fingerprinted and photographed when they come into the United States.

Also, the previous measure was that they would be required to have visas, which Brazilians previously did not have to have a visa to come into the United States. So Brazil also reciprocally now requires United States citizens to have a visa to come into Brazil. So it's kind of a tit for tat, but it's all -- it falls into the homeland security...

COSTELLO: It might be short-sighted on Brazil's part, because doesn't a lot of tourists come from the United States to Brazil?

FLOURNOY: They do. They do, both, and both ways, actually. A lot of tourists from Brazil come to the United States and likewise a lot of the United States citizens like to go to Brazil. So from, certainly, tourism officials are not happy about it on either side...

COSTELLO: No.

FLOURNOY: ... because it's not going to be helpful no matter what, from their point of view. It just is another aggravation, you know, another thing that hinders the tourist trade.

COSTELLO: Understood.

Word on Indonesia, too, this morning.

FLOURNOY: Yes, actually, in Haiti...

COSTELLO: I'm sorry, Haiti.

FLOURNOY: Yes, in Haiti we're looking out today again for more protests. Yesterday -- and I think we have some video -- they were marking yesterday the 200th anniversary of independence from France. Yesterday, there were some pretty intense protests against the government of Jean Bertrand Aristide. We have our Ingrid Arnison (ph) there, who's keeping an eye on things in Haiti. They got kind of violent yesterday with about 5,000 protesters out in the capital. And we just have heard reports this morning that an advance helicopter team, a security team for South African President Thabo Mbeki received some gunfire and has prevented -- Thabo Mbeki is there for the celebrations, but has prevented his visit to one of Haiti's cities because of security concerns.

So things are looking kind of dicey there. We're going to be keeping an eye on that and see whether the protesters are back out in force again today.

COSTELLO: Will do.

Thank you, Eli.

FLOURNOY: Thank you.

COSTELLO: We appreciate it.

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