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* the world's crappiest food, and too much of it
* loud, raspy, nasal voices
* constant risk of being shot
OK the country looks beautiful but you can get stunning natural scenery elsewhere on the planet with added culture
Honestly I cannot see why anyone would want to visit the USA these days. It sounds like you're "welcomed" with an intrusive interrogation and if you get through that you have to endure: * the world's crappiest food, and too much of it * loud, raspy, nasal voices * constant risk of being shot OK the country looks beautiful but you can get stunning natural scenery elsewhere on the planet with added culture
Honestly I cannot see why anyone would want to visit the USA these days. It sounds like you're "welcomed" with an intrusive interrogation and if you get through that you have to endure: * the world's crappiest food, and too much of it * loud, raspy, nasal voices * constant risk of being shot OK the country looks beautiful but you can get stunning natural scenery elsewhere on the planet with added culture
Most people I've found who think that are young and poor or left, how perspective changes once you escape that!
Honestly I cannot see why anyone would want to visit the USA these days. It sounds like you're "welcomed" with an intrusive interrogation and if you get through that you have to endure: * the world's crappiest food, and too much of it * loud, raspy, nasal voices * constant risk of being shot OK the country looks beautiful but you can get stunning natural scenery elsewhere on the planet with added culture
you might try actually visiting and finding those aren't truthful :) Most people I've found who think that are young and poor or left, how perspective changes once you escape that!
People are not political opinions. Not to get into a debate here, but neither of you are providing evidence for your claims, and relying on confirmation bias is not a good way to prove something.
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TSA Pre can help, but if you have a similar name to someone on a watchlist or no-fly list you can still get stopped. If anyone reading this is consistently stopped unfairly, or faces extra delays when ticket agents print their boarding card, you should use DHS TRIP (Traveler Redress Inquiry Program) https://www.dhs.gov/dhs-trip
Even a redress number is no guarantee against TSA harassment at the border, although that's not a new thing. On The Media had an episode featuring the story of one of its producers' experience at the US-Canadian border in 2013, during which a group of US citizens were held without cause other than the fact that they were Muslim.[1] One of them had a redress number, but the CBP agent told him that it didn't matter and…
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Decidedly anecdotal: Not the OP but I am brown like Indian with a non-Muslim name and have never had any extra scrutiny at security, except for one "random" screening on my boarding pass that involved some TSA swab check. I am a citizen, but I haven't heard of any non-citizen family friends or relatives that have expressed anything out of the ordinary.
> ...anything out of the ordinary. I'm Canadian. White. Blonde. I'm often mistaken for a soldier. After possibly hundreds of trips in and out of the US spanning four decades, last month the guy at YVR asked me "what religion are you?" That was strange. I didn't have a ready answer and I'm someone who always has a ready answer for boarder guards. I actually said "Well, when my grandfather died we had a ceremony at a c…
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> ...anything out of the ordinary. I'm Canadian. White. Blonde. I'm often mistaken for a soldier. After possibly hundreds of trips in and out of the US spanning four decades, last month the guy at YVR asked me "what religion are you?" That was strange. I didn't have a ready answer and I'm someone who always has a ready answer for boarder guards. I actually said "Well, when my grandfather died we had a ceremony at a c…
Officer watched too much homeland?