What happens when you refuse to answer a passport control officer's questions

Re:What happens when you refuse to answer a passport control... by jmspring on Monday September 13, 2010 @12:26AM (#1685507)

Every country is different, but coming back into the US is a uniformly annoying experience. From my experiene, US Customs/Border agents are at the very least lacking any sort of friendliness with some sort of powertrip being the norm.

Given these are some of the first people visitors to this country encounter, I would hope they would be friendly and professional rather than surly and on an power trip.

Every foreign country I have been to (mostly Europe and Canada) has been friendlier and more welcoming than every single instance that I have had in dealing with US customs upon re-entry. And, for the record, I am in the "here's my passport" and answers questions crowd.

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Re:What happens when you refuse to answer a passport control... by matwood on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @01:50PM (#1691502)

And I have experienced the exact opposite when entering US. The agents have always been friendly and courteous. I wonder if it has to do with what airport you enter the country from. All of my international flights end up going through ATL.

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