Originally Posted by
jphripjah
So as I mentioned in another thread, I refused to answer some questions from CBP while re-entering the country by air, and ended up with a secondary inspection, two hour detention, bag search finding nothing, interrogation, etc.
At the end of the incident, the officers were typing up notes for my electronic file. One of the officers gleefully informed me that I would know be red flagged and thus likely to be selected a lot for secondary inspection in the future because of my history of being "uncooperative."
Anyone ever been red flagged by CBP like this and what should I expect on future re-entries? Automatic secondary inspections for life or if I feel like cooperating in the future could secondaries be avoided?
Feel like filing a lawsuit? Sounds to me like they are punishing you for exercising your 5th Amendment rights.
The other possibility... they knew what you were doing was legal, no red flags, and they just wanted to f%@ with you.
In either case, it might be a good idea to apply for Global Entry to find out either way. If they deny you, then you have more evidence of retaliation. If you get GE, then you never have to answer questions from CBP when you enter the country.
Originally Posted by
studentff
I think there's even more to it than that. During the extensive bag search after my rpd at PDX, I started trying to root cause the source of the original alarm, and the STSO agreed to ETD a bar of hotel soap in my rollaboard at my request. Before doing so, he *loudly* announced to the other TSOs in the room that this test did not "count." Presumably, if it had "counted" and been "positive," something even more offensive would have happened to me or my stuff. As it was, the test was negative.
Is it possible that they are taking stats? It would be nice if someone is recording false positives.
