<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by cordelli:
We had it happen on a flight from London to Kennedy in December, there were two customs agents right outside the door to the plane asking everybody to show passports as we were getting off the plane.</font>
I have had this happen several times at different US airports. I never could figure why they bothered to do it.
BTW, these were arrivals from "mainstream European and Asian" cities.