--- Gabe Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RESPONSE: Using your yardstick, what is wrong in alerting people to the fact that US immigration might turn them down even at the point of entry? You seem to believe that the US of A is squeaky-clean and is a paragon of virtue and conformity. > Mario replies: Hey, Gabe, Keep your shorts on. Fair enough. There is nothing wrong in alerting people to have their bona fides in place to ensure that their visas will not be rejected at the point of entry into the US.
However, that's not what your author was doing. What I found offensive was the way in which he or she presented the issue, which was snide, patronising, misleading and hardly constructive. I do not deny that some people have problems with their visas on entering the US, especially post 9/11, when 19 Arab foreigners with supposedly valid visas attacked the US from within and killed 3,000 people, including dozens of fellow-Muslims and hundreds of Indians. On the other hand you need to understand the magnitude of the problem and the fact that there are processes in place by which people can usually get their problems addressed and misunderstandings cleared up. However, every now and then someone can be treated in a way that is unfair. It is a known fact, and a subject of much debate within the US after 9/11, that the US is more lax in allowing people entry and allows more foreigners to abuse it and its privileges than any other country.
