Originally Posted by
ESpen36
In the post-9/11 world, I don't think they can do paper processing anymore. CBP officers need to run queries in the computer to make sure they catch individuals who have outstanding warrants or other red flags in one of the many national and international databases that are networked together.
I was thinking that they could use LogMeIn or a similar system to run the searches remotely at another facility that has functioning connections to the databases.
There must be some way to process manually or semi-manually. In my GUM experience I was processed through immigration before the systems came back on.