I mean if I were a smuggler wouldn't the crime bosses have set me up with fake working papers or something? Why have someone go in claiming to be unemployed? This strategy would just seem a little bit too obvious/stupid to me. I guess in retrospect I understand how it might appear suspicious, but I am not a smuggler lol, nor do I have any desire to be. I just want to go to grad school and become a foreign service officer. My record is completely squeaky clean and I have never had any trouble with the cops.

Just the way I was spoken to left me very surprised and with a bad taste in my mouth towards CBP. I know I did absolutely nothing wrong whatsoever, but to have some guy aggressively interrogating me, just made me very afraid of those guys.