Menashem's story reminds me of something that happened to my brother.
He's in the air force, and was in the US for some kind of exercise. He'd flown in via a military airfield; but he was on a civvy plane back home.

For some reason, he'd not had his passport stamped on arrival, and, when he turned up at LAX, this was noticed by the border guy - who began to get shirty on the grounds that my brother was clearly illegal. Attempts at explanation were going nowhere particularly quickly, and there were murmurs concerning the gravity of the situation - up to and including deportation.

My brother could see the aeroplane that would bring him home through the window. "Deportation would be just fine," he offered. "I could go on that plane there. Look: I've already got a seat booked on it, so it'd be no trouble at all."

It apparently took the border ape far too long to see the virtue in the plan.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 15 Jul 2011, 9:02, 1 reply)

Cusoms at LAX is shit.
When I came back from the UK a couple years ago on my spanking new green card, they held me for an hour while verifying my legal status. Bastards.
(nolongernuts, Mon 18 Jul 2011, 1:41, closed)