The United States is preparing to implement one of the most intrusive entry-screening systems in the Western world, marking a dramatic escalation in the government’s reach into the digital lives of foreign travelers. A newly proposed Customs and Border Protection (CBP) rule would transform the routine I-94 and ESTA processes into a sweeping biometric-data pipeline. Under this overhaul, applicants will no longer use the traditional web portal; instead, they will be forced into CBP-controlled mobile apps that extract passport-chip data, capture live selfies, run “liveness detection,” and link the traveler’s identity directly to their device. Layered on top of this are data grabs involving social-media history, geolocation metadata, contact networks, and behavioral patterns — creating a pre-arrival digital dossier before a traveler ever steps foot on U.S. soil. CBP markets this as fraud prevention, but in reality it signals a shift toward treating every person entering the country as a node in a global surveillance web.

Prophetically, this trajectory mirrors exactly what Scripture warns about concerning end-times governance — a world system defined by tracking, monitoring, and controlling movement (Revelation 13:16–17). The migration of identity checks from physical documents to smartphone-based biometric verification is not merely technological evolution; it’s the infrastructure foundations of the coming global control grid. By establishing a distributed “biometric border,” the U.S. normalizes constant pre-screening, remote identity confirmation, and digital profiling — all essential components for an eventual Mark-enabled society. Once these systems are embedded, they rarely retreat. Instead, they expand, integrate, and tighten around everyday life. What begins with foreign nationals often ends with citizens. The Beast system is being built one policy at a time — and most people don’t even notice the scaffolding going up.

SOURCE: Biometric Update