How do you wink at a illegal allien?

[Bird]

How do you wink at a illegal allien?

[Robert Lees]

Re: How do you wink at a illegal allien?

It may be funny to you, but it's also the way the USA winks at legal "Aliens".

As a regular visitor to the US, I have to suffer the indignity of the US Border Control /Slash/ Immigration / Slash / rubber glove Agency / Slash / TSA.

All of whom do little to provide a genuine welcome at the "Land of the Free" US of A, and treat dollar-spending visitors & tourists decently at US International Airports (and no doubt, other ports of entry). No wonder first-time visitors get such a bad impression.

They could do worse than desisting from the use of the word "Alien". , and start treating visitors as if we're not all terrorists.

< rant over>

Once through Immigration & Customs, you folks are great!

[guns68]

Re: How do you wink at a illegal allien?

I don't know if it makes you feel any better, but those agencies treat us the same way.

[Peter Collin]

Re: How do you wink at a illegal allien?

Ditto on Guns68 post.

Peter

[N96337]

Re: How do you wink at a illegal allien?

Yep, spent years hauling fuel across the Canadian/US border. Sometimes 3 trips a day.... going into CA was always pleasant...nice people, job to do, but cordial. Coming back into the USA was almost always a pain. Rude, smartass people, always suspect of us...and I was born in the US, lived here all my life. Luckily, I didn't need my passport back then..as it had lots of stamps from countries that they'd have really raised their eyebrows at, from when I sold aircraft engines and did tech rep work... I'm sure it would've been alot of fun then..or now.
IF all their tactics did any good, I'd say fine...but we have the WORST security in the world! TSA is a total joke!
JH

[paulnuss]

Re: How do you wink at a illegal allien?

The Customs and TSA greetings are just as rigorous for us who are US citizens, when we come into the country, as for residents of other countries. But our customs inspection pales in comparison to the stops by the Mexican police, and the Mexican Army, when you are driving into their country. Past the border towns, you drive along the highway and come to a checkpoint where everyone is stopped. The main difference between the Police and the Army lies in their armaments and uniform colors, the police with black Battle Dress Uniforms (BDU's) point a Heckler & Koch 9mm MP-5 submachine gun at your belly while asking for your documents, and the Army guys with Olive green BDU's point a 7.62x51 NATO caliber H&K assault rifle at your guts while asking for your documents. You fervently hope that all is in perfect order as the nervous 18 year old soldiers caress the triggers of their guns. And God forbid you should have a dropped .22 cartridge under your truck's seat when they look things over, it's off to the carcel, and that won't be pleasant! So we're not really all so tough here. And I hope we are at least fair and respectful. Unfortunately it's not the Good Old Days here in the USA, and the terrorist threat isn't imaginary. We apologize for the inconvenience to our legal guests from other countries! And the illegal aliens are a huge problem that has gone completely out of control!