Emirates Says Bookings to the U.S. Fell by 35% After the First Travel Ban

Re:Emirates Says Bookings to the U.S. Fell by 35% After the ... by sandworm101 on Saturday March 11, 2017 @06:09PM (#13847812)

> ...anything out of the ordinary.

I'm Canadian. White. Blonde. I'm often mistaken for a soldier. After possibly hundreds of trips in and out of the US spanning four decades, last month the guy at YVR asked me "what religion are you?" That was strange. I didn't have a ready answer and I'm someone who always has a ready answer for boarder guards. I actually said "Well, when my grandfather died we had a ceremony at a church. Is that enough?"

Have you ever been arrested? No. Have you ever been finger printed? Yes. Have you ever been to the middle east? Yes. Are you carrying food? No. What religion are you? .... wtf did that become a thing?

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Re:Emirates Says Bookings to the U.S. Fell by 35% After the ... by nojvek on Monday March 13, 2017 @01:15PM (#13859925)

Officer watched too much homeland?

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Re:Emirates Says Bookings to the U.S. Fell by 35% After the ... by sandworm101 on Monday March 13, 2017 @10:16PM (#13864419)

That's only slightly funny. In the dark days of GWB (2002-2007) I saw many interviews where interrogators, from boarder guards to military people, said they took guidance from popular TV shows. The breakdown in mid-level management, a lack of clear standards and procedures, meant that otherwise rational people felt it appropriate to take ideas from TV. The writers of 24 were visibly upset when confronted with evidence that intel people took "interrogation" ideas from their show.

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