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UK signs deal to share police biometric database with US border guards

Paul Crawford Silver badge

I do wonder why the USA is so concerned about border security. I mean if they were concerned about innocent Americans being killed it would make sense to stop risky incomers, but then:

"Firearms deaths are a fixture in American life.

There were 1.5 million of them between 1968 and 2017 - that's higher than the number of soldiers killed in every US conflict since the American War for Independence in 1775.

In 2020 alone, more than 45,000 Americans died at the end of a barrel of a gun, whether by homicide or suicide, more than any other year on record. The figure represents a 25% increase from five years prior, and a 43% increase from 2010."

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