Entry to USA ( Archived) (105)

Yes, he would be the first I have come across as well... Hmmm.... I’m not worried though… Every country has their bad seeds…

I have no intentions of visitng the US as a foreigner or visitor.My originql worriies convcerned my friend and the way that she was treated.
Posts and replies show just how sick the US is.

Hope you can suvivve when humans expel you!

I agree. Does not look very big, either...

Yep I think that's pretty straight forward...No confusion there!!!!!!

How stupid and chidish? "Never let the facts stand in the way of a good argument"

We cannot answer - so let us just throw insults

Right after 9-11,my daughter and I were flying to Seattle.They detained us or at least my daughter,untill we missed our flight.Why was she detained? Shes native american has dark skin,long black hair.Were we upset,Yes because we missed our flight,But we understood.No reason to detain her except her looks.But someone haas to do the job of keeping the terrioists out.I would rather be searched, than end up on a flight with a mad bomber.

First let me say that I feel badly that your friend had to go through an ordeal. Having said that I am not sure if you can blame the whole country for the act of a few.

The problem is that our low-level officials who oversee such things as immigration and customs are poorly educated and under-trained. They haven't been taught to welcome each visitor as a potential source of revenue and goodwill.

You didn't say where your friend was flying from. Was it from the UK to ORD or from a third country? It's possible that the immigration officials had wrong information about her, or that her namesake was on some list. I have a friend with an unlikely name of Paul Johnson, who had trouble flying because there was another Paul Johnson whom the TSA didn't like.

When I fly to London I can simply enter the country by a retina scan but there are other countries that give Americans a tough time based on the theory of reciprocity. Brazil, for instance, would photograph and fingerprint every American entering the country because we do the same to Brazilians. I have also had nightmarish experience entering into Belarus because my Russian wasn't good enough to understand that he wanted to see my return ticket to Warsaw before allowing me entry into the country. Once while crossing the Slovak border into Poland by a train (this was when the Poles were upset by American visa requirements) the immigration person actually asked me why I was going to Warsaw, was it to work? And I had to point out that I was actually catching a flight from Warsaw to Chicago. How many cases of illegal Americans living in Poland?

Whenever TallB's brother-in-law visits this country (he's a bearded long-haired musician type from Germany) he's always given a hard time before being let in.

Don't hate us all. We're really on your side.