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Originally posted by: EKKC
Originally posted by: mjh
Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Originally posted by: buzzsaw13
Racial profiling FTL
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Why? It makes things more efficient. Life isn't fair.
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It does? 😕
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yes it does. seriously why would you bother to check a 80 year old grandma for explosives when it's statistically impossible that they are terrorists? (i'm not going to say who you should check,. thats for a P&N thread) so okay, if one day a 80 year old white woman decides to blow herself up in front of some building, then you bet your ass that they will start being checked as well.
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Nah, the 80 year old white woman would be smuggling drugs unknowingly because her grandson help her packed.
 
Originally posted by: saymyname
Do any of you guys see the hypocracy here?

The "land of the intollerant redneck"? You complain about profiling and then make a statement like that?
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My neck is kind of red from shaving earlier...

But honestly...you're right.
 
Originally posted by: iamaelephant
That sucks dude. Racial profiling is just wrong, but to be expected in the land of the intolerant redneck.
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ahh, yet another ignorant post by "iamaelephant"

you sure do have the intelligence of an elephant
 
First I would like to apologize for the rude behavior of my fellow citizens. I know the border patrol and customs folks have to walk a fine line. If they are not tough enough and something happens then they get criticized for being ?asleep at the wheel?. If they are too tough then they get called ?profiling racist?.

The comments you described were not professional and uncalled for, especially when directed toward a high school kid. The post 9/11 era has everyone jumpy and they may have thought you were trying to pull a fast one without your passport or birth certificate. The only reason I could think of for their rude behaviour is that they were trying to get you mad and judge your reaction.

We visited Canada ten days ago and had polite agents on both sides of the Peace Arch crossing.

By the end of the year however passports will be required for citizens on both sides as I am sure you are aware.

I hope the rest of your trip is pleasant.
 
damn, i was caught with a bag of pork coming in.... i should've told them that i'm islamic so they wouldnt suspect a thing....
 
Originally posted by: saymyname
I've had problems getting into France before simply because I asked them to stamp my passport.
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hahaha, the Canadian immigration guy at Niagra Falls looked at me like I was crazy when I asked him to stamp my gf's US passport, told me she didn't need one. I had to explain to him that she wanted a stamp in her passport since she didn't have any from other countries (depending on what country you land in in the EU, they really don't stamp anymore so the only one she had was from US and the Czech). He was kind of shaking his head while he stamped hers, probably thought we were a bunch of crazy stupid Americans😀

I love the INS:beer: One time I got in an argument about my greencard while I was flying back into San Francisco, he asked why I hadn't gotten a new greencard since I was like 10 when I got it and obviously looked a lot different. Since I knew I wasn't required to get a new one for another 2years, I told him so and he actually sent me to the main office:Q Had to wait like 20min until a supervisor came out and told me that I was right but said next time don't argue with the INS official. Told her that if she didn't want her time wasted, maybe she should make sure that the people she was supervising actually knew what they were talking about. She just gave me a dirty look and said she would make sure of it. Lesson learned, even though I no that they are wrong I usually keep my mouth shut (yessir massa boss)

Then there was the time when I was about 12, flying into San Fransisco with my mom (greencard) and sister (citizen). The immigrations guy started asking all these questions about why we had greencards (dad's job had us living in the US for a bunch of years), who paid for my sister's birth (dad's insurance), blah blah blah. Then he started saying how it was illegal or something since we (my sister and I) didn't "talk" English (yes, he did actually did say talk English), etc etc. At which point I said informed him that we both "speak" English very well, it was just that we were brought up NOT to start yapping away at every oppurtunity, especially when adults we talking. He just shut up and quickly stamped us through. My mom was definately not happy about that one, I think I was grounded for a while.

What do you expect, the INS is like any other government beauracracy. Sure there are good knowledgable people but there are a lot of incompetant people too. Just don't let it get to you. Smile, nod, and say yes sir.

OP: you really didn't have anything to prove that you were a legally able to stay in the US so what did you expect? You don't have to be a citizen to legally get those documents that you had (though really to this day don't understand why a birth certificate is considered proof of citizenship, you could have just as well renounced it)
 
You really have NOTHING to complain about. You can come back to bitch and moan when you lose a Sikh relative because some redneck nut with a rifle thinks he'll rescue us from the terrorist by shooting anyone with a piece of cloth on their head (turban = muslim to that ignorant son of a bitch)
 
Originally posted by: Eeezee
You really have NOTHING to complain about. You can come back to bitch and moan when you lose a Sikh relative because some redneck nut with a rifle thinks he'll rescue us from the terrorist by shooting anyone with a piece of cloth on their head (turban = muslim to that ignorant son of a bitch)
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Yeah, and that happens all the time....
 
Originally posted by: saymyname
Originally posted by: Eeezee
You really have NOTHING to complain about. You can come back to bitch and moan when you lose a Sikh relative because some redneck nut with a rifle thinks he'll rescue us from the terrorist by shooting anyone with a piece of cloth on their head (turban = muslim to that ignorant son of a bitch)
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Yeah, and that happens all the time....
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It's just irritating to see people get pissed off over something so minor and insignificant as getting delayed in customs. Oh shoot, people are racist, is this news to anyone?

Getting mad at a short delay caused by racism is stupid, and you really realize that when you see true loss.

The OP is just bitching for the sake of bitching and doesn't really have a reason to be so irate
 
You say that you've been here longer that most of "us", yet you still make statements like "though what happened to you guys"? 😕

To each their own I guess though.
 
Originally posted by: RyanSengara


In a thick drawl the guy goes 'I don't give a damn who the hell you are, it's my job to keep people like you (by that he meant brown people) out of my country'.
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Originally posted by: RyanSengara

I'm a half-East Indian half english citizen of Canada, and my East Indian side of my family has probably been in North America for longer than most of you guys.
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and

"The fat white lady"... What's it matter if she's white??
 
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