Originally Posted by Gaucho100K
Rubbish. What pathetic argumentation.....
Your thread title is all about why the USA is having all its current troubles on the world stage. That obnoxious, cowboy attitude is costing the USA a lot more that its gaining through it....
And, no, that 'not to excuse the INS' doesnt get you off the hook...
Its clear that you are an unconditional supporter of the INS and their actions.
I guess this is what the British get for being the US lapdog...
Gaucho, are you for real? You missed the entire point.
You should know from my posts around here that I am no friend of what the US has become over the past few years. This place is closer to a police state than I have ever seen, and I include the INS ( or whatever they are called now) as a clear part of that.
In fact, the INS is the most unreasonable entity around. They were going around arresting muslims after telling them to go downtown to get their address on file.
I know people who got married to a US citizen years ago, got a divorce and years later (last week, in fact), got a pound on a door at 6 am, got sent to a detention center, because the INS had somehow merged records of people who got married to US citizens with some other database. They are downright scary.
BUT- and that was my point (which B747-437 understood), for a so-called "journalist" to wake up in mid 2004 and get bent out of shape about this, when it's been going on for months is more a reflection of her own lack of curiosity than anything.
It is a well known fact that by now that you'd better double-check, triple-check your story and your visa before you walk out of that plane.