An FYI about fingerprinting
I'm not a US Citizen, I'm a Permanent Resident, a Green Card Holder if you want to call it that. I came to the US a little over 10 years ago in order to marry my girlfriend who is a US Citizen and didn't want to live in the UK.
When I was interviewed by the (then) INS after we were married they fingerprinted me. My first job in the US involved handling very large sums of cash, I was fingerprinted again during the orientation for that job. I have a Class A CDL (for those who don't know, it means I'm allowed to drive a tractor trailer) with a Hazardous Materials Endorsement. Guess what, for the Hazmat I was fingerprinted, not when I first got it but by the time it came up for renewal a law had been passed making it necessary for all Hazmat Endorsement holders to have a background check completed.
Every time I return to the US and go through Passport Control I go through the same line as US Citizens, show them my UK passport and my Green Card and then, you guessed it, I get fingerprinted again. One time I just got to wondering why, considering that it seemed like every government agency already had my prints so I asked the Immigration Officer why he needed them yet again. It was a polite exchange, I told him I wasn't arguing but I was just curious as to why they need them yet again, and his answer was the one thing I hadn't thought of. He said that it was to make sure I was still the same person, that my identity hadn't been stolen so that an illegal could use my information to get in the country.
For the record I live in Henrico County where, guess what, they fingerprint CHP applicants.
I don't like the idea that all these agencies have my fingerprints, even though I have zero plans to commit any crimes. However, in order for me to keep living in this country and keep the job I have, it's a price I have to accept. On the plus side, the last time I purchased a firearm when the dealer punched in my details for the background check, it came back as approved within a couple of seconds instead of the 5 or 10 minutes other people were waiting in that store that day. Some of you may think that's poor compensation for the invasion of my privacy, but I gotta take what I can get and see the silver linings instead of the clouds.