The best option for border crossing is to apply for and get a
1) Global Entry card - for entry into the US from anywhere airports or land crossing
2) A Nexus card - for US / Canada border
3) A Sentri card - for entry into the US from Mexico with preclearance of your vehicle allowed.
I got global entry after a rather hostile CBP experience at the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit years ago. Subsequent border crossings with Global Entry in hand have been a breeze.
Sorry you're not getting many serious answers, just bumping the thread.
The best grilling I ever got at the airport was by Israeli security. They asked me a bunch of questions and looked for inconsistencies, and I had told them that this guy across the room was my dad. So they ask me to call to him, and I do, but my dad is completely oblivious and just keeps walking around whistling. So this looks really bad because I can't call him over by saying "Dad!" and the Israeli security guy gets tenser and tenser. Eventually I walk over and grab my dad, bring him back to the security guy, the security guy asks questions and visibly relaxes once he starts getting the same answers. This was in SFO.
The second best grilling I ever got was also in SFO. I was going through one of those full body scan machines and the lady asks me to take everything out of my pockets. I said I did. She asked me again. I said there wasn't anything in my pockets. Then she pointed at my leg and said, "There's something in your pockets, right there." She gets tenser and tenser and she calls someone else to help her out, and I'm getting confused because I'm patting my pockets to show her there's nothing there but she sees something and doesn't believe me. Eventually I look at where she's pointing, just above my knee, and realize what she sees -- it's my quadricep muscle! I was a pretty fit cyclist at the time and had pretty big quads, and they kind of stuck out a bit. So I figured it out and started joking around, which made her even MORE tense -- but then suddenly she realized what I was joking around about and was finally like, "Naww, you're skinny as hell, you've got to eat some beef and potatoes. Beef and potatoes!" Then she gave my legs another look and let me through.
-DS
Obviously if you'd got agitated he would have panicked and shot you and then told the grand jury he thought Hulk Hogan was trying to kill him.
Fat Old Man wrote:
Racial Profiling wrote:Glad to see the police aren't racially profiling anymore and are coming down on WASPy looking people trying to capture resistance fighters. The stereotype is that the resistance fighters are olive skinned Arabs or Mediterraneans. Many Middle Easterners are very WASPy looking. Maylaysian and Indonesian resistance fighters look Chinese. Chechen resistance fighters look like half-Mongol Polish and Russians. Egyptian resistance fighters look Afro-American. My frat bruddah decades ago was 100% Egyptian, midnight, played B-Ball like Kobe.
"Resistance fighters"? Are you being ironic, or do you belong to the Weather Underground or something? The border guards, a--holes that they are, aren't looking for heroic, noble warriors. They are looking for the kind of f--kers who fly planes into buildings, indiscriminately murdering thousands of innocent people in the process. They are called 'terrorists', in case you didn't know. A buddy of mind was killed by some of them in the Bali night club bombing. Terrorists. Not 'resistance fighters'.
WRONG. The border guards (+ other "law" enforcement") are fascist, bullying pigs who were too stupid to get real jobs so instead they suck the gubment's teat and take out their petty grievance on people who will get legally murdered by them.
the reason this thread was bumped is because we are wondering if you still have that girlfriend?
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you don't have a GF. go back to the nerd cave.
Galen Rupp Number on Fan wrote:
WRONG. The border guards (+ other "law" enforcement") are fascist, bullying pigs who were too stupid to get real jobs so instead they suck the gubment's teat and take out their petty grievance on people who will get legally murdered by them.
Customs are the only people who actually caught a terrorist in 2001.
Wrong. Crossed into Canada this weekend. The CANADIAN border guard was a COMPLETE asshat. Asked me to "open the window" of the car. But I was talking to him through it, it was down completely; it appears (and I'm still not certain) that he meant the Back window--but I didn't know because Ginger man had shades on and I couldn't see where he was looking (or even if he was looking back there). By the time i figured it out it it had apparently come too late--he gave me (and my 80 year old Mum) a piece of paperwork and said "drive over there and go inside with this." Did that. Went into their admin center. They took the paperwork, said "wait over there" and 1.5 hours later called our name and said "you/re free to go". Explained nothing. Now I recognize and appreciate the challenge of their position, and appreciate the security that they are providing. Have never once had a problem in this type of situation. Ever-- And I've been through MANY customs/borders. And yup, I realize that I've been lucky. Not the point. This CANADIAN "agent" is a dick.
. . . so are the days of our lives
Why did it take you six years to reply to STAVIES comment?
How You Lost The Constitution
Dan the Masters Man wrote:
No, but it would probably be relatively easy for someone to doctor the "E" to look like a "C".
In a 1970's movie, sure. For real with a modern passport? No way. Between the paper, inks (plural) and other security features you'd disturb it would be obvious.
Not that the border guard would know seeing how he got an identity completely wrong.
A republic, if you can keep it wrote:
How You Lost The Constitution
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231453https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231453
Yes. Thanks for posting that ... for the dummies that don't realize what they're want done to all of us.
America. How free do you feel?!