Originally Posted by
jkhuggins
To be fair ... this passenger had just arrived in an unfamiliar airport in a foreign country, having just gotten through the wonderfully aggressive treatment that CBP gives to our guests, having just arrived from a country whose infrastructure got blown to pieces a couple of days earlier by an earthquake. A little bit of disorientation would not be unexpected.
He wasn't just some refuge from Haiti. He maintains an apartment in Brooklyn and flies to/from Haiti several times a year.
From the
NY Times:
Mr. Bouloute’s estranged wife, Marie Bouloute, said in an interview at her home in Brooklyn that her husband returned every few months from Haiti, and she added that he knew the procedures at the airport well.