While I completely agree with you, I will clarify that I did do my homework, and seeing that it was my first trip to Costa Rica, I didn't think there was anyone who would know better than the airline about documentation requirements. Once I was given concrete information from American Airlines, I had no reason to distrust them. However, I agree that it was still my responsibility to find out any information I needed. I believe it would've been one thing to have been turned around at Laguardia, and told that we could not fly to Costa Rica without proper documentation, but the fact of the matter is that an American Airlines employee made a grave error by sending us to Costa Rica, but she put the responsibility of our initial errors into the airline's hands, and the airlines is now being sued $10,000 for a secuirty breech (they made a copy of my sons birth certificate in Liberia as proof). The fact is, American Airlines screwed up big time by flying us without proper documentation to an international country, and I am looking to take massive action against them for what they have done.
Again, I agree. It is not even this information that I am disputing, I definitely know for next time to contact the country I am visting. However, American Airlines checked us through to Costa Rica, and they definitely shouldn't have seeing that it is against American and Costa Rican law, and that there are now extreme monetary penalites that they have to pay. Again, if American Airlines had turned us away in New York, there would've been almost nothing we could've done. But because two American Airlines employees made grave errors, we flew to Costa Rica and were deported, and granted the information should've been different from American Airlines, why should we have distrusted them at all?
By the way, I really don't understand what the point is to waste time and energy trying to find flaws with the way I'm posting and wording my issue. Just so you know, Webster's definition of deportation is "the removal from a country of an alien whose presence is unlawful or prejudicial," which is exactly what the case was. We didn't have proper documentation, so we were deported. So don't try to impress anyone else reading the forums, and don't try to sound superior by getting clever with me, when you are ultimately wrong.