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[quote=Anonymous]Every time someone has posted starting recently and started their post with the phrase "I'm an immigration lawyer", they showed their naivete... or worse, they lied knowingly, maybe to lull the American public into thinking their border officers are upstanding people.

Just so you know, 99.99% of people passing a border control check are incredibly polite. Why? Because the whole ordeal of passing a US border point, for a foreigner, is deliberately made to be intimidating. Even back in normal days, border control officers were always brusque and unsmiling at the best of times. I've lived in the US for years legally as a tax-paying visa-holder, and I've been witness to several insane encounters with border officers who yelled and spit at, and leveled accusations at the top of their voice, to well-behaved folks (some of them with kids) trying to cross a border - and not the southern border, to which I've never traveled. Dulles. Niagara Falls. Random border point in Vermont. That sort of border. I've been selected for secondary interviews and sat waiting for it with people from all over the world, regardless of ethnicity, age or sex. Some were mothers with newborns, some were really old people. My own courteous, elderly parents from Europe were once detained for 4 hours at Dulles, and at the end they were let go without an explanation. And all that was before the current administration.

Don't tell me it's all fine and dandy if you're polite, when I've seen otherwise with my own eyes. I am convinced that the sort of person who seeks a job as a border officer has an inner desire for hostile dominance of others. It's barely bridled when normal Presidents are in power. It must be completely unbridled now. Let it sink in that the border officer to whom you hand over your passport for the check has unlimited power over you. They have a bad day... and it's all over for you, no matter what you say or do.

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