The Homa Files

Here’s a twist of irony on the Arizona illegal immigration dust-up …

My son and daughter-in-law recently took advantage of some bargain travel rates and vacationed in Mexico.

When their flight arrived back in DC, they had to:

1) Fill out a form stating their citizenship and declaring whether they were carrying stashes of livestock, yucca plants or pesos.

2) Present their passports to customs agents

3) Answer a couple of clarifying questions (e.g. purpose of trip) after their passports’ bar codes were scanned to pull up their profiles from the Fed data base.

Hmmm.

Two lifelong American citizens flying back from a Mexican vacation into a city that’s several hundred miles away from the Mexican border … a city that’s not reputed to be high on the illegal immigration standings.  They have to jump thru hoops to re-enter the country.

But if – instead of a direct flight from Cancun to DC – they had come by truck across the Rio Grande, there would have been public outrage if they were asked to show an ID.

Is it just me, or is that nuts ?

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