Originally Posted by
GUWonder
My bet is that the standard applied varies based on racist and other tribalistic (if different) sort of prejudices held by the relevant individuals making judgments about what is acceptable and not.
And this is what we are left with. If a white German-born woman complained about being delayed at CBP secondary inspection and questioned about her Irish passport, no one would sympathize with her.
But when a dark skinned person makes the same complaint, readers howl "CBP racism" and assume that the referral of the dark skinned person to secondary was racist.