Customary for ICE to come to aircraft door to review documents and separate citizens?
Jul 19, 2018, 1:48 pm
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One tactic to reduce asylum seeker claims is to meet aircraft. This is a way to identify the country where a passenger has flown in from due to some passengers destroying their passports and then claiming asylum at the immigration podium. All of a sudden the 22 year citizen of Pakistan is now a 16 year old Afghani asylum seeker. By meeting aircraft at the door, officers can determine the origination of the plane and can flush the toilet for the passport. Without a Passport, no deportation can be done.
Jul 19, 2018, 7:44 pm
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One tactic to reduce asylum seeker claims is to meet aircraft. This is a way to identify the country where a passenger has flown in from due to some passengers destroying their passports and then claiming asylum at the immigration podium. All of a sudden the 22 year citizen of Pakistan is now a 16 year old Afghani asylum seeker. By meeting aircraft at the door, officers can determine the origination of the plane and can flush the toilet for the passport. Without a Passport, no deportation can be done.
Jul 20, 2018, 12:14 pm
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One tactic to reduce asylum seeker claims is to meet aircraft. This is a way to identify the country where a passenger has flown in from due to some passengers destroying their passports and then claiming asylum at the immigration podium. All of a sudden the 22 year citizen of Pakistan is now a 16 year old Afghani asylum seeker. By meeting aircraft at the door, officers can determine the origination of the plane and can flush the toilet for the passport. Without a Passport, no deportation can be done.
Lots of Pakistani passports are fraudulently used by non-Pakistanis, including to lawfully claim asylum in places where an Afghan passport won’t take them as easily as some Pakistani passports. But also lots of Pakistanis can successfully claim asylum status even using a Pakistani passport in non-fraudulent ways. That is why the above example is not the best one to make the point of one of the reasons that DHS has some of these reception parties.
Jul 20, 2018, 6:19 pm
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What's the better explanation as to why they separate citizens and non-citizens? Is it just to make it easier/faster to find a particular person they know to be a citizen or non-citizen?
Jul 22, 2018, 2:19 pm
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I had to Google that:
Jul 22, 2018, 2:32 pm
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Jul 23, 2018, 12:46 am
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Jul 23, 2018, 10:52 am
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DHS/CBP/ICE have been engaged in “show of force” farces a lot too, and I have no doubt about that.