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To: Owl_Eagle

Is TSA in foreign airports for US bound flights? I was surprised last year when coming back from France through Canada, that I went through US Customs in Toronto.


28 posted on 08/17/2006 11:54:04 AM PDT by SF Republican
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To: SF Republican
No, inbound flights are subject to local boarding security personnel and regulations. That's why some countries can't fly to the U.S., because their regulations are so slipshod. I Think Nigeria for instance is on that list, but I can't remember for sure. Next time you fly internationally, they have posters up warning folks about those countries.

The CBP screening, that's a pre-clearance thing, where we have officers in foreign ports to screen passengers before they arrive here. It's kind of a convinience thing, I guess. Get you processed before you're tired from an international flight. It's the same thing you go through when you arrive at an airport here.

Do you remember if the CBP guys on duty in Canada were screening for weapons, or just things like (CITES, Fruit, Meat) a rhino horn full of heroin and Khapra Beetles?

47 posted on 08/17/2006 12:04:10 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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