Actually, ID, that was at least a partial mistatement on my part (and critical since it led to your own confusion as to what I really meant to say). When I wrote ICE, I actually meant COSTA RICA's immigration department not US ICE. Mea culpa and a thousand "Hail Mary's" for that. Of course, I already know (or knew) that ICE is the (relatively new) name of the US's immigration department, but then I sometimes still refer to them as the INS (in fact see my quote below). So please forgive my tired old brain.
My periodic confusion on this matter is often compounded by the fact that CR does also have its own ICE (albeit, as you already pointed out and I already realized, that is their Electicity and Telecommunications utility company not their immigration) and, for that matter, also an ICT (for tourism), which is another very similar acronym, and even their own INS (which, as I'm sure you know, is like our SSA). So, while it was certainly my mistake, IMHO it probably was not all that an uncommon one for someone to make and so should be very understandable (as perhaps also was your confusion given what I DID write).
Now, no, I don't really expect you to be a mind reader
. OTOH, I did say this at the start of the post where I first discussed the issue of immigration department involvement:
Prolijo wrote:
CIA or INS, I still don't see why either of those agencies would have photos of Dominicanas unless maybe they had applied for a visa to the US. Perhaps he means CR Immigration? Is his wife a Tica herself? Or maybe the brother working for US Immigration used some sort of contact he had with a Tico counterpart rather than accessing it anywhere in the US's database. ...
Please note my mistaken reference to the US INS in the above quote and the fact that I myself in that very first sentence acknowledged that US immigration would not normally have any reason to have photos of Dominicanas in CR and that was even before you made your post on the subject.
Also, you should have noticed this from my very first sentence in the paragraph from where you took my quote:
Prolijo wrote:
The more relevant question regarding how his wife got the photos becomes could she have gotten it through a connection at the CR Immigration. ...
Maybe those could/should have given you at least SOME clue about what I actually meant to say. And, even if you missed those earlier comments, the very context of what I was writing should have also given you a clue that I might have meant something else other than US ICE. Your most recent comments patronizingly explaining the obvious difference between US ICE and CR ICE, suggests to me that maybe you already did have a clue as to my confusion and just wanted to bust my balls about it rather than simply and more graciously say "Your last post makes no sense to me. You can't mean US ICE. Maybe you meant to say CR immigration since that would make more sense."
Of course, I realize the difference now (and even then though that was not what I wrote), but
even if you took what I initially wrote at face value, "every person in the world" is NOT nearly the same thing as "every person who has passed through immigration into CR". AND, now that I've clarified that I meant to say COSTA RICA's immigration authorities (not ICE), it should clarify for you even more why I felt that they should have some sort of record of every person who has
passed through immigration into their own country and it should also explain why they woud have records of previous deportees and the possible relevance of that comment.
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