US Border agent gave my passport to.....??
For anyone that has border crossing concerns....Monday morning, crossing at Oroville, get the usual Agriculture inspection. Pull over to the left and wait for the agent. Agent finally saunters over...
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JRscooby wrote:JaxDad wrote:
To say someone is “from” ......... or they are “citizens of” ........ is nothing more than lubricant for the spin doctors.
As an example, there are a LOT of people who hold a Canadian passport which technically makes them “a Canadian”. Does that mean they were born here? Raised here? Are reflective of the rest of our society?
It means they went through a process and moved to a new country, nothing more.
I don't understand what you mean. And likely I was not clear about what I was trying to say. My point is on 9-11-2001 17 out of 19 hijackers that attacked the US where from, or citizens of, Saudi Arabia. And most of the people accused of planing and financing the attack also where from, or citizens of, Saudi Arabia.
Crowe wrote:
Please, all, let's not get political and get this thread shut down. It's an interesting "what would you do?" type scenario that many of us could potentially face that has nothing to do with politics.
I was in fact trying to make it totally apolitical by pointing out that the flag on the front of a persons passport no longer reflects the true situation as to the person or their background.
We in North America, even Europe, don’t understand the way things work in the Middle East. You can change nationalities there like we change underwear here.
For years it was the dirty little secret, if you want to put on a cloak of anonymity in the Middle East and cease to be a citizen of (insert country of ill-repute here) and travel freely all you had to do go to Saudi Arabia and get citizenship there.
Voila, you are now welcomed in places you would have formerly been scrutinized if not rejected in.
