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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 07:48 AM Original message |
Crossing the Canadian Border... |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 07:51 AM Response to Original message |
1. It's random except for specific profiles - young men... |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 07:53 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. And yet my sister in law, who could have been easily "profiled" |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 07:55 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. ALL border people under estimate women as potentially.... |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 08:46 AM Response to Reply #2 |
9. Only the Northern border |
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warrens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 09:57 AM Response to Reply #2 |
21. It's not wide open |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 10:15 AM Response to Reply #21 |
25. It is wide open. I have lived here in Michigan for 24 years and traveled |
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terrya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 07:57 AM Response to Original message |
4. I went up to Toronto a few days after the terrorist plot... |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 08:00 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. That is exactly how I felt. |
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gaspee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 08:38 AM Response to Original message |
6. Let me guess... |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 08:42 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. I would agree with you if my sister in law wasn't dark and sitting in |
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MaineDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 08:45 AM Response to Original message |
8. I cross often and I find the same thing |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 08:57 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Amazing, eh? |
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movie_girl99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 09:03 AM Response to Original message |
11. my husband had a scary experience |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 09:35 AM Response to Reply #11 |
15. I am glad your husband was not detained any longer than that. |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 09:38 AM Response to Reply #11 |
19. Have your husband make a photocopy and carry the card all the time.... |
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movie_girl99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 09:52 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. he is never without it now |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 10:02 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Yup, the INS guys can be such welcoming bastards to us immigrants.... |
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movie_girl99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 10:15 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. tell me about it |
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Avis (113 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 09:18 AM Response to Original message |
12. Checked every time |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 09:35 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. It seems funny to me, but they used to seem tighter in the 80's than |
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jimshoes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 09:29 AM Response to Original message |
13. I've had experiences that run the |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 09:36 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. I'm a "live free or die" kind of girl, so the terror thing doesn't bother |
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Zensea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
14. They probably ran you through a data base though |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 09:38 AM Response to Reply #14 |
18. They had nothing to "run through" though. They didn't ask my name |
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Zensea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 10:04 AM Response to Reply #18 |
23. who knows then, maybe a retinal scan |
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bif (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 10:24 AM Response to Reply #18 |
27. They always type in your car's license # |
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bif (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 10:22 AM Response to Original message |
26. Just the opposite for us |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-14-06 11:06 AM Response to Reply #26 |
28. I gotta disagree bif. I am never relaxed at the border and I don't know |
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