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Oh no, I get all of that. But DHS is DHS as far as I care.

If they sincerely thought that these people were a threat they would have been detained. They were not worried in the slightest however, and nobody "seemed like trouble". The agents were just being assholes.

You see, the extent to which they posed a threat to the country they also posed a threat to the aircraft. (Not in the slightest, and everybody involved knew it.)



Counter-example:

Normal guy, going to a conference, history of overstayed visas.

He can get on the plane from Paris to New York, but he's not getting in (rightly so). TSA is not CBP, nor should they be.

I'd much rather that all that money go toward (better) background checks by CBP instead of perfume-stealing by the TSA.


I think it is pretty clear that in this case the rational of the CBP is that the two were 'dangerous', not that they messed up paperwork or violated visas.

De-fund them all, they have proven that even they don't take themselves seriously.




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