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Brazil to Strengthen Fingerprint Policy

The wait is up to 9 hours for Americans to get fingerprinted at Brazilian airports. A stronger policy goes into effect Monday.

Brazil denies it is retaliating for the U.S. policy, but Judge Julier da Silva's order to begin fingerprinting contained tough rhetoric, calling the U.S. program "absolutely brutal, threatening to human rights, violating human dignity, xenophobic and worthy of the worst horrors committed by the Nazis."

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