NCFCA Policy Debate: Database Interoperability — Not a Problem (NEG)

In Status Quo, the EU has recently set up a computer software system that allows a single query by a border guard or law enforcement officer to check multiple separate databases (“interoperability”) to search for information about a traveler crossing the border or a suspect in custody.  This allows for more accurate identification of security threats and more accurate removal of illegal immigrants.  For example, one database might have information that this individual got caught immigrating illegally a few years ago, or was part of a known terrorist organization, while the other databases don’t have that info.  The officer might not have known to search the specific database that had the important information, but now with “interoperability,” with a single search, he finds it quickly.  AFF plan cancels this new system and reverts back to the system of separate databases without interoperability.