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Old Feb 2, 2009 | 4:28 pm
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Originally Posted by sbm12
I was rather surprised this morning as I came through immigration at EWR to notice that the computers the agents work on appear to have access to the Internet.
Am I missing something? What's the big deal?

Suppose a tourist tells the inspector he works for Company X in Country Y, wouldn't internet access possibly provide a means for the inspector to verify this information and speed the clearance process?
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