Originally Posted by
dsg10715
Why don't they just refuse to allow any non US passport or Green Card carrying citizen to board a US bound flight unless they have passed extensive El Al style screening. It's not a right to board a plane, it's a privilege to enter a country's borders. If they don't make the cut they can hang in London or wherever else they're training fundamentalists. Why do we keep letting in these damn nut jobs? Don't let them on the plane! That simple. No one will miss these people making their way to the USA.
Sure.
In 2008,
a mere 50.5 million "foreigners" (half from Canada/Mexico, the other half from "overseas") visited the US. Why not subject more than 50 million people to an interrogation in the hopes of catching one or two "nut jobs"? The airlines won't mind if millions of honest people cancel their trips to the USA, since they're in such good economic shape right now.
Those 50 million "foreigners" stayed in hotels, they rented cars, they ate in restaurants, they bought stuff.
$110 Billion worth (pdf warning). But I guess the US economy is so damn strong that it can do without that, too.