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I must admit, that in 28 years of TATL travel, I have seen this happen at almost every airport I have entered into the US (RDU, CLT, MEM, DTW, ORD, DFW, MIA and BOS). In 90% of the cases it was uniformed police and not CBP.

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Originally Posted by Firebug4 (Post 13460539)

The officer's don't like them hiding in the bathroom because there is nothing worst than thinking you are done for the night and then finding three or four Sri Lankans in the bathroom.

:D:D:D

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Originally Posted by Firebug4 (Post 13460539)

If CBP officers are at a gate for an arriving flight is generally not an anti asylum measure.

Then what is it?

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Originally Posted by iluv2fly (Post 13459340)

Actually, I don't ever remember that being done coming back from a Western European country. Mainly Eastern and Southern ones, in my experiences.

I had it happen last year for an FRA and a ZRH.

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Originally Posted by iluv2fly (Post 13459340)

Be thankful. As I was in C on the 747, I was one of the first dozen off.

Shame you didn't let all the F pax off first. :D

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Originally Posted by iluv2fly (Post 13459340)

Even then there was a small line while they checked your passport and verified it was yours. You can imagine the line and backup when the other 200+ people in Y were coming out and lining up.

That would suck almost as bad as traveling in Y

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Originally Posted by Grace B (Post 13475209)

Seen it happen at LAX several times.

From what I can recall it was the LAPD doing the checking.

Don't think it was the LAPD-- sounds like CBP.

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Originally Posted by Grace B (Post 13475209)

What on earth could the TSA do?

Any answers I would give would net me a suspension.

I see it sometimes arriving at foreign airports such as Paris. Transit passengers in some cases need visas and I presume the checks are to see if arriving transit passengers have the appropriate visas. In the US everyone needs to go through immigration so there is less reason for at the gate passport checks on arrival, but still given the possibility for error if they are looking for sometime in particular on a flight it is probably safer to have agents at the gate. Why not board the flight? They may be looking in general for suspicious passports rather than just one individual.

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2 CBT agents met AA71 from Frankfurt today. They was one of the first few off the plane and they were just glancing at the passports. Seemed to focus more on non-US passports.

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Originally Posted by 777lover (Post 13484565)

In that case, they were obviously looking for a person or for persons carrying a passport other than US. All they have to do is glance at the photo to make sure it matches and not even look at the name since they know the person(s) they want will not be carrying US Passport(s). With the other passports, they have to look at the name, too.

And, its CBP, by the way.