Originally Posted by MilesAndMore
I later discussed this with someone (I can't recollect who) and I got a perfectly rational explanation - immigration officers are told to be gruff to people coming into the US, thereby attempting to throw jet lagged passengers out of balance and catch inconsistent statements. @:-)
In the years past [pre 911] I would agree that almost all US Immigration officers were .......s, but since then I've had the most civilised and polite officers even when there has been a problem, eg when my exit form wasn't recorded from the year before, so they thought I was still in the US!