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To: Lexluthor69

I’m from there and trust me it is really hard to get over here.

Our best ally and this admin craps all over them.

Maybe these Brits are white, and Christian and we just can’t have that can they.
BTW M mam came over here and what a balls ache it was for her plus she got pulled aside for further inspection and questioning for over an hour.

Yes that 79 year old granny is really a big threat while those 3rd world lot and muslims are not

ARF


15 posted on 01/14/2011 2:14:58 PM PST by manc (Shame on all who voted for the repeal of DADT, who supported it or never tried to stop it. Traitors)
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To: manc

An interesting tid-bit, earlier last year:


What is a 6-year-old Indian American girl doing on US terror list?

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/what-is-a-6-year-old-indian-american-girl-doing-on-us-terror-list/articleshow/6100855.cms

WASHINGTON: Santhosh Thomas, an Indian-American doctor, is at a loss to understand how his 6-year-old daughter Alyssa turned up on the US government’s terror watch list or how to get her off it.

The worst thing Alyssa has ever done is probably threatening her sister and that the doctor from Westlake, Ohio, says he’s sure is not enough to land her on the no-fly list of suspected terrorists.

“She may have threatened her sister, but I don’t think that constitutes Homeland Security triggers,” Thomas said.

An airline ticket agent informed the family of their predicament when they embarked on recent trip from Cleveland to Minneapolis. “They said, ‘Well, she’s on the list.’ We’re like, okay, what’s the story? What do we have to do to get off the list? This isn’t exactly the list we want to be on,” Thomas was quoted as saying.

The Thomases were allowed to fly that day, but authorities told them to contact the US Department of Homeland Security to clear up the matter. Now they’ve received a letter from the government addressed to 6-year-old Alyssa, telling her that nothing in her file will be changed.

Federal authorities have acknowledged that such a no-fly list exists, but as a matter of national security, they won’t comment on whose names are on it nor why.

“The watch lists are an important layer of security to prevent individuals with known or suspected ties to terrorism from flying,” an unnamed spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration told Fox News.

“She’s been flying since she was two-months old, so that has not been an issue,” Alyssa’s dad said. “In fact, we had travelled to Mexico in February and there were no issues at that time.”

That’s likely because of a recent change by the Transportation Security Administration, which used to check only international passengers’ names against the no-fly list, but since earlier this month has been checking domestic passengers as well.

The Thomases told CNN they plan on appealing Alyssa’s status to the US Department of Homeland Security again, and will be sure to leave plenty of extra time for check-in the next time they fly.


Now this is incompetence on the part of the security agencies. The case on this thread where parents took the wrong passport and attempted entry without the appropriate visa, honestly, is not. The border agents did the right thing, by the book, in the South African case.


20 posted on 01/14/2011 2:31:59 PM PST by James C. Bennett
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