All states need to use facial recognition for everyone who is arrested, especially illegal aliens and individuals in the US on a Visa.  Many illegals in the US use fraud, multiple identities, and fake identification cards.  All people entering the US should be required to go through a facial recognition camera so we can identify them when necessary.

Facial-recognition technology might be regarded as the soul's window cleaner — at least by state officials nationwide who are increasingly using it to catch identity thieves and other fraudsters trying to get driver's licenses or other official identities.  England and other countries use facial recognition in their major cities, mass transit sites, major sporting events, and airports to enhance security.

New York this year became one of more than 30 states to deploy the controversial technology at its Department of Motor Vehicles. Gov. David A. Paterson will brief reporters Tuesday on hundreds of cases the state is prosecuting as a result — including at least one that officials will tout as a major criminal apprehension.  New York officials would not comment prior to the briefing, but the Empire State is just the latest in a long line to find that facial recognition can be a powerful tool to unmask identity thieves and other impostors.

Facial-recognition software automatically examines digital photographs, comparing the unique underlying structures of the face across different images — flagging suspicious matches. 

Officials in Indiana, who started using the technology in November 2008, say they are finding less than half as many fraud cases this year as they did last.  "It's a real deterrent," said Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles Deputy Commissioner Dennis Rosebrough. Historically, he said, the state had a reputation as an easy place to fraudulently obtain a driver's license or non-driver ID. The Indianapolis Star newspaper once referred to the bureau as "A hotbed of fraud."  BMV Spokesman Graig Lubsen told The Washington Times that the bureau had investigated 2,200 cases of suspected fraud in 2009, but only 451 as of the beginning of July this year.  "The word is out on the street," added Mr. Rosebrough, "that it is now very difficult to get a fraudulent ID in Indiana."

Among the cases that helped scotch the state's reputation as an "easy mark," he said, was that of William Sherman Smith, known as "Big Daddy." Earlier this year, Mr. Smith pleaded guilty to federal charges of using false identification and counterfeit checks. According to Mr. Rosebrough, Mr. Smith had ID documents in 149 different names and had engaged in check-cashing and other fraud to the tune of more than $250,000.

Let's use technology to identify the criminals and terrorists.

Another person in Montgomery County is killed by an illegal alien gang member.  Detectives from the Montgomery County Police Major Crimes Division have been investigating the death of 15-year-old Dennys Alfredo Guzman-Saenz from the 8100 block of 14th Avenue in Hyattsville.  His body was found on Monday, January 19, 2009, at the edge of a stream in the Malcolm King Park, located at the end of School Drive in Gaithersburg.  On Thursday, May 7, Joel Y. Ventura-Quintanilla, age 22, of no fixed address, was arrested and charged with the first-degree murder of Guzman-Saenz. He is currently being held without bond at the Montgomery County Detention Center.

What is wrong with the political leaders and citizens of Montgomery County when they do not understand that an open-door policy toward illegal immigrants is the fuel that feeds the criminal elements in the county?
 
This Saturday, May 16, a number of pro-illegal alien community organizations, taxpayer funded illegal alien support groups including CASA of Maryland and the Montgomery County Government are sponsoring a "Safe Silver Spring Summit". 
 
Ravaged by increasing gang violence, murders and crime, a major portion committed by illegal aliens, the desperate homeowners associations in Silver Spring decided to plan a crime summit.
 
Help Save Maryland (HSM) participated in the early planning meetings, and suggested that instead of cuddling criminal illegal aliens, communities should demand that the Montgomery County Police enforce the law and work the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to arrest and deport illegal aliens.
 
At the demand of CASA of Maryland and the County Executive, HSM was removed from the summit planning committee.  Instead of a crime summit, this event will be an amnesty love-in for illegal aliens in the community.  Planned Summit recommendations include demanding more tax dollars for groups like CASA of Maryland to help illegal aliens fit in so they won't join gangs or commit crimes. 
 
Participants should know that there are alternatives to aiding and abetting illegal aliens. 
 
Please contact Help Save Maryland, Brad Botwin, bb67chev@aol.com or 240-447-1884 for instructions on volunteering Saturday morning to help with another (anti-illegal alien) solution for Silver Spring.
 
 
Safe Silver Spring Summit, Saturday May 16, 2009
FACT SHEET

I. Mission: The mission of Safe Silver Spring is to develop strategies, partnerships and goals to keep Silver Spring a community where people can live, work, travel, shop and play safely.

The first Safe Silver Spring summit will bring together citizens, community leaders, non-profit organizations, and public officials to develop an action plan that enables communities to reduce crime and keep our neighborhoods safer.

II. Location
Montgomery College
Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus
7600 Takoma Avenue
Takoma Park, MD 20912
Campus Map http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/maps/tpcamp.html 

III. Summit agenda - note that the morning and afternoon sessions are identical; attendees should sign up for one or the other

Morning session
8:00 - 8:30 Registration
8:30 - 9:00 Overview
9:10 - 10: 40 7 simultaneous workshops
10:50 - 11:20 Workshop reports, end of morning session

Lunch
11:30 - 12:15 Lunch for all participants

Afternoon session
11:30- 12:00 Registration
12:25 - 12:55 Overview
1:05 - 2:35 7 simultaneous workshops
2:45 - 3:15 Workshop reports, end of afternoon session

Workshop Topics
1. Making Safe and Civil Public Spaces
2. Gangs and Pack Robberies
3. Youth: Schools, Truants, and Kids Hanging Out
4. Policing, Security, Resources and Communication
5. Por qué y Cómo Comenzar una Vegilancia Communitaria (Why and How to Start a Neighborhood Watch) (Workshop will be in Spanish )
6. Central Business District (CBD) of Silver Spring
7. Residential Neighborhoods

IV. Organizations

Lead sponsors:

· Prezco* (Presidents' Council of Silver Spring Civic Associations)
· SSCAB (Silver Spring Citizens Advisory Board)
· Silver Spring Regional Center

Other participating organizations include:

 3rd District Police
 State Attorney's Office
 Northwest Park Oakview Weed and Seed
 Montgomery County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council
 International Corridor C-Safe
 MD Community Crime Prevention Institute
 Downtown Silver Spring
 Montgomery County Public Schools Safe and Drug Free Schools
 Safe Takoma
 Impact Silver Spring
 CASA de Maryland
 MD Office of Crime Control and Prevention
 USDOJ/COPS
 Office of Councilmember Valerie Ervin 

We are making progress in Montgomery County with illegal immigration--it is sad that recent murders have happened for the politicians to act.  County Executive Leggett is responsible for the high murder and crime rate due to his "Open-Border" policy for illegal immigrants. 

Montgomery Police Seek Tougher Line On Immigrant Status
Detainees' Residency Would Be Checked In Cases Involving Weapons, Violence
   
By Dan Morse
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 1, 2009; Page B01

Montgomery County police are seeking approval to ask suspects arrested for violent crimes and weapons offenses about their immigration status, an about-face in a county whose leaders for years declined to do so even as police agencies elsewhere in the region began aggressive efforts to identify illegal immigrants.

The proposal, developed by Chief J. Thomas Manger and his senior staff, comes after two alleged illegal immigrants were charged in the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old honor student on a county transit bus and after another alleged illegal immigrant was charged in a string of home invasions and the slaying of a 63-year-old Bethesda resident in her home.

"All public officials have been receiving questions from citizens who are asking, 'Why are persons who are in the country illegally or unlawfully allowed to remain?' " said Wayne M. Jerman, an assistant police chief.

Jerman said the policy is not ideologically driven. Rather, he said, police officials see immigration violations as another tool to get dangerous criminals off the streets. The proposal will not go into effect without the approval of County Executive Isiah Leggett, who once angrily told a crowd that the county is "not in the business of enforcing immigration issues." Through a spokesman, Leggett declined to comment. It is unclear when he will make a decision.
Del. Ana Sol Gutierrez (D-Montgomery) said she and other immigrant advocates have met with Leggett to convey their opposition to the policy change. She said it could lead to racial profiling and constitutional violations.