www.CostaRicaTicas.com

Saw this today and one of the things that could get you a invite to room "101" with a escort of Airport cops is complaining about the way security is being done( or praising them to much ). But by the time you get to the end of the article they are making ( limited data ) improvements in catching bad guys with watching for Your Behavior - body language, words and actions- . But also TSA is no longer just looking for Terrorists but also criminals and illegal immigrants now .

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-04-15/trav ... =PM:TRAVEL.

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My best friend was the clock on the wall, and he turned out not to be much of a friend in the end

once again "thank you" osama ... that rat bastard.

But, not for very long...

Passive aggression works well with over-zealous, surly authority figures. Just do what they tell you to do... and nothing more. They will tire of you quickly (or think you are incredibly stupid), and tell you to move on.

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Pura Vida...enjoying life to the fullest...

No thank you GW, DC and Karl Rove, for acting like pansies when you all replaced a perfectly fine security apparatus with a bunch of rank amateurs and left us unprotected for 6 years while they went through a learning curve. Praise allah that Al Qaeda wasn't very competent.

It's just a game.. The whole US gov't is rotten to the core... Doesn't matter who, what beliefs or any of the other bs...

goodness looks like hank the keeper of politics will have many members to correct

Very true - we need to profile, but good luck with that in todays politicaly correct world.

Because Muslims, as well as people of color would likely be screened more than others, I can see the ACLU lawsuit now.

I would gladly pay the $100 fee to be completely checked out and issued a card, or be in some type of data base attesting to the fact that I'm not some kind of subversive or Al kieda supporter. There was talk this would be available but I have not heard anymore about it - any intel, Srlim

This is just an extension of government intrusion into our lives and the next steps are incremental increasing control just like during the Fascist amd Nazi days which were billed as noble movements to help the " common man." Shame on those that eschew free markets and freedom!!

The government knows what's best for you. Those of you who vote for those that want big government and have that entitlement mentality are getting just what you asked for. Government control of your life.

Check out the "Trusted Traveller" and the "Global Entry" programs.

Signed up with GE and it has already saved me dozens of hours getting through immigration/customs on my last three trips.

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I've heard nothing but positives about "Global Entry" from the people I know who joined the program. I believe all the international airports in the US have GE kiosks now.

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Blue Devil

Pura Vida...enjoying life to the fullest...

Ok you will now-- AT MIA they mix the cattle with us more the equal Global Entry Travelers in the same line. So it takes the same amount of time. I mentioned this to the nice man who checked my pass port. He told me to just go to the head of the line and use the machine, then walk through showing the slip the machine spits out.

Now while this may be the way, jumping places in line seems to be 1) not American 2) usually gets someone mad 3) In official lines, draws unwanted attention to one self from the line managers . ie the people with the guns. But the nice guy told me that s the way it is, so this July I will do it that way- line jumping, and then he told me to report to Room 101-- dont complain about procedures while in line!! -- which was a farce, walked in no one talked to me just told to put stuff on x-ray machine - went though picked my stuff and walked out holding the custom form in front of my self. In the mean time they were goign though every one stuff with a fine took comb..

But work slick in IAH where they had separate line for crew and Global entry people.

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Thanks Iguana, Blue, and X
I will check it out

PS To X man - you are giving away your Midwest politeness; jumping a line after I went through the program and paid the fee for one of the options mentioned would not cause me one nano second of consternation -
Living in Miami, why would it NOT surprise me that MIA had the phucked up proceedure mentioned?
I lived in Peoria 7 years; great people; lousy weather!

As of late November, 2010, Charlotte (CLT) did not have Global Entry kiosks.

With CLT being a US Airways major hub with International arrivals, surprised me that they did not have Global Entry kiosks. So unless you know for sure, still take the Declaration Form that the flight attendants hand out.

I'm a GE traveler and I fly into MIA -- concourse D, E and J -- frequently. I'm not sure what you meant by your post, but at MIA GE travelers don't have to wait in line unless the kiosks are out of order (which I've never seen happen).

Once you get arrive in the immigration area (before the lines) there are 4 or more GE kiosks scattered around. In Concourse E they're located to your right as you walk into the immigration area.

You go to one, do the picture/fingerprintscan/questionnaire thing, get your receipt, then proceed to the same line the airline crews use, show your receipt to the agent, then go to baggage claim. No waiting in line. Takes 60 seconds.

On some occasions I have seen agents divert arriving passengers into a secondary entry processing area which doesn't have GE kiosks. If that happens to you, just show the agent your GE stamp and tell them you want to use a kiosk. They'll wave you through the main area where the kiosks are.


I agree about MIA and Miami being phucked up in general, but the entry procedure for GE travelers isn't one of them.

HTH,

mh

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haha Just looking at the title of the thread "Don't complain about Security when in Line or ELSE!!!". Anybody that doesn't have any better sense than the Phuck around in the airport in this day and age pretty much deserves the royal treatment of pants down and the snap of the dreaded plastic glove.