Originally Posted by
König
On your blog site, you wrote
You are wrong about CBP not having a right to ask for your travel documents when you are leaving the country. By law, the CBP has the authority to check papers when somebody is leaving the country - they just choose not to do it on a regular basis. Sometimes, you can see CBP agents checking documents from departing public at airports and land borders - because they are given this authority by the US government.
I understand that you may have some strong political opinion about this and that [your comment about "opressing the people" gives a strong hint], and I am not arguing whether exit controls are right or wrong, but at least you should not distort the facts.
Correct, three of my last five flights had CBP checking all docs in the jetway before boarding, with the routine of questions and whatnot.
you can youtube (or maybe Hulu) that show Homeland Security and see some of the episodes where they do exit checks and catch people with money and whatnot while leaving via plane.
Also the airlines send the exit manifests to CBP before departure for checking ( and look at how DSK was caught for example).
They happen here just with much less regularity than, say Europe.
Two of my last 4 trips out of the UK had the booths set up for exit checks at LHR also. It happens...