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#2It seems that every day new reports are published talking about victims that are denied to enter the USA because of the wildest reasons - even with legal papers.
But it's not only the arbitrariness that every report seems to claim. It's more than that the behaviour of the officials towards citizens of other countrys and nations.
"America knows everything" - and you're not welcome any more.
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#3"I noticed an Indian boy in his early twenties at the end of the room." anyone else think of aditya? http://varnull.adityamukerjee.net/post/59021412512/dont-fly-...
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#4Any person visiting the US today should be expecting this
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#5Welcome to America, where we read your private mail, track all your movements online, shoot your dogs, abuse you at the borders, put antibiotics in your food, bankrupt you when you get sick, throw you in jail with hardened criminals if you smoke a spliff, and drone-execute you with no warrant if the president doesn't like you. Would you like fries with that?
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#6It's very hard to extrapolate from stories like this to know if the actual instance and intensity of abuses is increasing, or if reportage is increasing (i.e. landing on HN front page) because of folk's irritation with other aspects of the US government.
For my money, TSA is right after HSA as far as FUBAR government agencies go. Seems like quality control is right in the shitter. As for solutions, I'd like to see a customer satisfaction survey implemented across the board. You might actually be able to implement something like this in a favorable political environment (there's no law saying that TSA has to attempt to piss off every person that comes through our borders). I've noticed that some of these completely dysfunctional agencies seem to attract the worst sort of bad eggs, so with something like that you could at least weed out some of the most underperforming TSA mob squads.
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#7I feel helpless each time I read an account like this.
I used to get angry.
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#8Anyone else reminded of the Solzhenitsyn book, "We never make mistakes"?
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#9Even if you were born and raised in America, you're not truly American unless you're white.
Until then, prepare to be accosted at immigration.
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#10Any person visiting the US today should be expecting this
That seems slightly hyperbolic. 50 million people visit the US every year.