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Old Apr 28, 2013 | 9:01 am
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Originally Posted by Always Flyin
You weren't arrested once.

You were arrested multiple time to the extent that you can't even recall all the arrests.

Since the overwhelming super-majority of people will never be arrested, IMHO, someone with your colorful history most certainly should be denied participation in a trust based system.

For those who claim every U.S. citizen should be given Global Entry, I live in the real world. In that world, that will never happen. If anyone suggested that it should, the response would be to cancel the program. I prefer disqualifying objectively suspect applicants. That's the real world.
He was never convicted. Perhaps he is in lots of protest marches, and gets arrested a lot. Unless his arrest was for a customs or immigration violation that he committed but the authorities declined to prosecute, then there is no need to refuse GE.

Originally Posted by Spiff
That's what you and some other people have decided to make your view of the so-called "real world" and in my opinion it's a rather un-American view.

CBP should be forced to make Global Entry the norm for all without biometrics or questioning.
I agree GE should be the norm and there should be no questioning after the kiosk clears a traveler. I don't understand how the system can work without biometrics. Without biometrics, it would be easy for someone to use anothers GE identification to enter the country.
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