Originally Posted by
mre5765
Yes, asking these questions of a citizen and/or legal resident of the US is internal immigration / exit control depending on the ultimate destination?
What if my plane ticket took me to my legal residence in the USA, and the CBP officer asked me if I planned to travel the next day (internally or internationally)? Next week? Next month, next year, next decade, etc? At what point do you consider those questions Soviet-esque? What if the GE or Nexus kiosk asked the same questions?
I'll be using GE, so no consumables coming back on this trip.
I don't think so. Many international airports have international terminals. So put an exit control at the entrances. Solved.
For those international airports without international terminals, most of those have international arrivals halls connected to one terminal. So rope off part of that terminal to use for exit controls. Solved. The investment is pretty much in doubling the CBP airport workforce.
Wow, you have no real understanding of CBP nor US airports. The vast majority of US airports with international flights do not have a physically separate international terminal. Many have a few flights a day to Canada or Mexico or somewhere in the Caribbean. Even airports that do have "international" terminals - like SFO - also have domestic flights flying out of that terminal. Some airports with "international" terminals - like ATL and LAX- also have international flights leaving out of the regular terminals.
So, no, it's not as easy as just putting up some CBP booths on the other side of TSA to process foreigners heading out of the US. Since there is currently no constitutional requirement for US citizens to have permission to leave the country, there will never be exit controls on US citizens. So, there's zero chance that a system of international-only airport terminals will be built just to process foreign visitors on their exiting flights.