[PRCo] Re: crossing the border

Boris Cefer westinghouse at iol.cz
Mon Mar 7 12:25:00 EST 2005


Only some nations keep on mind that they have to have learned foreign
languages if they want others to come. The US (and not only the US) policy
is that the country doesn't need foreigners to come. This is at least the
first feeling you have when you come, but then you find that there
(fortunately!) also good people behind the "border" who don't have their
brains completely cleaned out.
Fortunately, I did not experience any problems with the US customs on my
recent trip.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Schneider" <fschnei at supernet.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 6:07 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: crossing the border


> Off subject warning!
>
> Bob Rathke wrote:
>
> > I made dozens of trips to Canada over the decades, and I always carried
a
> > birth certificate or a passport with me, but I was never asked to show
them
> > until 1993.  Since then, the Canadian immigration officers have always
asked
> > to see my papers, and one time they even threatened to deny access to me
> > because they couldn't detect the raised seal on the papers, but they
finally
> > used their fingers to find it.
> >
> > Bob 3/6/05
> >
>
> Sorry Bob, but you lit my match.....
>
> I cannot help but wonder if the fine Canadians are doing that simply
because
> they know the U. S. immigration people are going to be bears to returning
U. S.
> citizens.   They may not want you to remain in Canada as a burden to their
> welfare system if our people will not let us come home.  What do you
think?
>
> My own observation over the last 50 years is that the Canadian immigration
> people were invariably more pleasant and understanding  than U. S.
immigration.
>
> I've watched U. S. immigration people curse foreigners for minor reasons,
often
> for not understanding English.    I've asked one of our people at
Philadelphia
> International Airport, after I had gotten off a Frankfurt/Main -
Philadelphia
> plane with one stop in Montreal, where were our people who spoke French
and
> German.  The answer was that the one person who spoke German was on
vacation and
> no one speaks French.  But anyone getting off the same craft the next
morning in
> Frankfurt would have found that any inspector on any line would speak
German,
> French and English.   What does this tell us about our desire to have
Europeans
> come here and spend their money on vacation?   My travel agent advised me
not to
> write any complaint letters to our authorities because from then on I
would be
> stopped and harassed.
>
>
> > --
>
>
>




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