GERMANY TRIP
When the INS stamped Anderson's novelty passport in 1998 at MIA instead of his real one, however, he says he was returning from Germany.
Anderson said he couldn't recall whether immigration officials also ran his U.S. passport through their computers upon reentering the country.
``They might have glanced at it, but they didn't stamp it,'' he said. ``It was, `Welcome home, Mr. Secretary.' I'm in the computer. They know me.''
INS spokesman Rodney Germain declined to comment in depth about the situation.
``We are working closely with the FBI in their investigations of these attacks. There's really no specific details that I can go into.''
Germain did say that INS does not recognize the Conch Republic passport: ``That is not an official U.S. document. What we can say is that we are not going to accept that as an entry document.''
Herald staff writer Manny Garcia contributed to this report.
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