Do not answer their questions. The U.S. border patrol / police are not your friends.
…the next official travel warning published by the Canadian Tourism Bureau.
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Down south, sometimes they dig tunnels:
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…which is a feature that it shares with every other country that isn’t an island or a militarised fortress state.
I thought y’all were supposed to think of North Korea as a bad thing, not a model to emulate.
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Indeed, “Jogging While Non-White”.
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Also, who puts a security camera covering some trail or little regarded road?
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I am an Australian and in 1997 I decided to visit some friends in NYC, along with my then girlfriend. We visited the US consulate in our city to apply for visas. Mine was okay but my GF had her application initially refused. She was in casual work (as a doctor) and had few fixed assets (I had crashed her car the previous week) and was from SE Asia.
So we had to appeal, by going back to the consulate. Many of the staff we interacted with there were perfectly okay people but the man who interviewed my partner from behind his 10mm thick anti ballistic barrier fitted the description “heightened emotional state — angry tone, hostile body language” in the article linked below.
Maybe their trick is to make people angry so that they give away information. Maybe my country does that to visitors as well. Maybe the job just attracts people who like to be abusive towards others. Hard to say.
But I am glad I won’t be going back to that consulate. If future travel requires me to go through that process I just won’t bother.
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It’s nice to find a website where one can comment freely on THE UTTER UTTER BULLSHIT THAT IS HAPPENING IN USA TODAY. SCUM IN CHARGE. I’ll leave it there.
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I’m going to guess that a dignified, snarky French personality conflicted greatly with a self-righteous, entitled American one on first meeting at which point it all escalated. One just happened to have a gun and cage truck.
Geddoutta here, ya commie-pinko-lib’rul-snowflake, an’ th’ Goddang Unicorn y’rode in on!!! #MAGA!!!
How much C4 were they hiding in their sports bras?
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A “C4” Sports Bra is not an issue. A “Double G” Sports Bra could take out half a city.
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I have no idea what a 100lbs of explosives size sports bra might be - but I suspect it might be noticed.
Is that a teenager in your bra, or are you just happy to bomb me?
“Ressam says that on the morning of Dec. 14, he called Meskini and told him he would be in Seattle that evening. That afternoon, he took a ferry from Victoria, B.C., to Port Angeles, Wash., with more than 100 pounds of explosives stashed in the wheelbed of the trunk of his rental car.”
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Strange. Why is it relevant that he is a US-born army veteran? Are US-born army veterans supposed to be treated better at border crossings than, say, tourists from France?
Ok, I agree that border patrol should be more lenient towards citizens actually caught entering their own country illegally, because even if the manner of getting there violated a law, they at least have the definitive right to be there. But army veterans? Only in Starship Troopers do you need to be a veteran in order to be a citizen…
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The implication was we’ve drastically increased the unpleasantness of crossing the border, without much gain in security.
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In case you missed it. This is the relevant part…
…we decided to stick to the U.S. side. So instead of crossing over, we stopped to take pictures at a sleepy rural border point outside Albergh, Vermont. …
When the author wrote this…
… Department of Homeland Security’s public affairs office would be spinning our deaths as an unfortunate mistake, while absolving themselves of responsibility. …
…they got it wrong. DHS is already “spinning”. No death necessary for the lies to come out.
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Nope, didn’t miss it, that’s why I put the word “actually” in there.
The crime they were wrongly suspected of is less severe because they were US citizens, which makes their citizenship actually relevant.
The place of birth and his military service are not relevant, so why are they even mentioned?
A nice jogging trail, with cameras but no sign. Too bad that it’s not possible to take U.S. Customs and Border Protection to civil court.
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Girlfriend in Tacoma, I know
I know, it’s serious
Girlfriend in Tacoma, I know
I know, it’s really serious
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If someone who has served the citizens of this country and could someday be president can be harassed by DHS then, quite literally, anyone can be harassed. Even Jesus.
The reader should assume they too will have to deal with copious bullshit when they are near a border.
The way I read the article, they didn’t cross the border at all. There was a simple barrier across the road so they couldn’t have crossed in their car. They could have stepped over, but the article doesn’t say they got out of their car. The border patrol people might not have realized initially that they did didn’t cross, but they can’t have seen the car cross from their position.
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