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Old Jun 6, 2007, 11:27 am
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JUANMA
 
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Originally Posted by Bob'sYourUncle
Ha, well don't ever try to speak to a US immigration person in anything else than American...
There you go... ^

Though there are exceptions... After a very long HKG-NRT-SFO (although in F) I arrived in SFO to have this immigration officer speaking to me in Spanglish, I was so tired I never realised he was mixing both English and Spanish. He was asking me "Are you bringing any comida?" Stupid me I didnt realise the name on his badge was a Spanish one, so I was trying to find out what he meant by "comida". I told him I couldnīt understand the last word in his question and he never said "food", he just kept asking me the same question with the same words. I then looked at his badge and realised the spanish name on it just to then realise he was saying a Spanish word at the end of the sentence...

He did ask some more questions in Spanglish but then I was ready
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