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bekitty

Welcome Home

Apr 10, 2010 23:47

I, like Catiecat, have recently had a brush with the US Customs and Border Patrol, and been shown the benefits of privilege. Only my experience was a bit more, well, intenseA bit of background: In August of 2007, I moved with my partner David to Knoxville in Tennessee. He'd been headhunted by the folks at Oak Ridge National Laborotory, and he'd ( Read more... )

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ehintz April 12 2010, 02:22:34 UTC

*sigh*

Welcome home. And apologies for the behavior of my homeland. It's this sort of injustice that drove me to emigrate.

mr_orgue April 13 2010, 03:37:52 UTC

Oh, I don't think I've told you that I blogged about this:
http://morgue.isprettyawesome.com/?p=1419

hugs'n'all that

dreadbeard April 13 2010, 06:30:56 UTC

What fascinates me is that it all went wrong due to one person making one bad call; applying the wrong process for the wrong reasons. Once you get a tick in the wrong box, interacting with Bureaucracy is always a bit fucked. The machine runs inexorably :(

We need better people, running better systems.

darthsappho April 13 2010, 07:39:16 UTC

Eeep! That's horrible 8( The C&BP are mad. Heard about this via norightturn, and wasn't expecting it to be someone I knew...

hpstrangelove April 14 2010, 17:14:23 UTC

I live in South Texas and used to travel to the border twice a year; I loved going shopping and sightseeing in Matamoros and Nuevo Laredo.

I was born here, but I'm 1/2 Mexican heritage - my dad was born in the United States, but his parents were from Mexico.

However, I look like I'm Mexican: black hair, brown eyes, and dark skin that tans even darker ( ... )