Comments on: Entering The United States http://osrin.net/2008/07/entering-the-united-states/ Notes from fourty one degrees south... Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:48:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gareth Horton http://osrin.net/2008/07/entering-the-united-states/comment-page-1/#comment-4772 Gareth Horton Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:08:53 +0000 http://osrin.net/2008/07/entering-the-united-states/#comment-4772 Oliver, Check this out: http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,438234,00.html Certainly one of the reasons for these questions is that if you lie here, then the US have SOMETHING they can get you with, even if not desired charges, a la Al Capone. I have often wondered myself about these slightly comical questions. They did start to irk me somewhat recently though, as my son has autism and the implication that we would have to talk to the US Embassy before coming to the US makes my blood boil. In addition, they mention "physical disorder" too - so that includes Stephen Hawking, for example. I am pretty sure that if challenged, those discriminatory questions would disappear. Gareth Oliver,

Check this out:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,438234,00.html

Certainly one of the reasons for these questions is that if you lie here, then the US have SOMETHING they can get you with, even if not desired charges, a la Al Capone.

I have often wondered myself about these slightly comical questions. They did start to irk me somewhat recently though, as my son has autism and the implication that we would have to talk to the US Embassy before coming to the US makes my blood boil. In addition, they mention “physical disorder” too – so that includes Stephen Hawking, for example.

I am pretty sure that if challenged, those discriminatory questions would disappear.

Gareth

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