"They're not being PROFILED, they just sometimes get caught in random searches. Your driver's license is run and your record, if any, comes up. You're turned back. "
Why would AMERICAN border patrol run checks or care ?
What right do they have to say I cannot leave the country ?
Unless I was wanted here ...
Smuggling?
My God, I just realized what I was saying...those are the Cnadian border patrol. I should never post when sick. Sorry. I need to go to bed
I think the poster meant that Canadians don't want drunk rivers in their country. This happened to my brother in law once. We went on the ferry to Canada in a large group. My mother had forgotten her ID, but they told her if she had a baseball card or any kind of picture on her, she could go right in. But they didn't like my brother in law's looks or something, so they interrogated him for hours and finally got him to admit he got a drunk driving ticket 20 years ago. The Canadians told him he could not enter Canada, but then they said if he had $300 in cash he could join us. He paid, but never wants to see the Canadian border again.
When we returned, the American agents only wanted to know if we had any counterfeit beanie babies with us. Maybe this is all this "Marine Inspector" really cares about. He doesn't sound to me as if he's in the right job, or thinks it's his job to protect the American taxpayers.