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These were asked of a relative of mine when returning to the US.
Where do you live?
Answered
Where were you born?
Answered
Do you have any alcohol or tobacco?
No
Where do you work?
Answered
What do you do?
Teach science and chemistry
What's the element symbol for gold?
Au
OK , have a good day.
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un educated imigrants would know what the gold one was.
does your cousin speak with a spanish accent?
I was applying to get into a father/son old time powerful union local. the running joke was; there were two questions to get in.
1. who is is your father?
2. how is he doing?
... is where do you live and then something like "how long a trip do you have left", or "so you still have XX hours left on the road" to see the reaction. Or the other way asking how long it takes to the destination. I think this is a good one.
first,just send a couple of ringers who have nothing to fear or hide. you get the basic profile questions. plan accordingly. time is usually on the side of the planner. also all the network and cable news services dicuss these 'security' techniques all the time.
It's not the basic questions, it's what comes after. In the case given,it was the question "What's the element symbol for gold?". the questions vary depending on the interview.
Here's an example of how even an "expert" as you call them can be tripped up: Once, coming back to Atlanta from an overseas news shoot I ran into an agent that I'd never met before. He said, "You may want to get back on the plane, they lost last night.". If I'd just remained quiet or in some other way indicated that I didn't "get it" they would have been all over both me and my baggage. It was a very clever remark, a "pro" impersonating a CNN crew rat probabily wouldn't get the joke and wouldn't respond.
why impersonate anyone? why not be yourself; become a persona grata*. remember they are well educated zealots. unless they ask if that's a bomb in your pocket or are you just glad to see them; beads of sweat will not occur. or do like the drug smugglers; tip the feds on a small 'large' event and while they are distracted by the movie lights; the real shipment enters elsewhere. they could not stop the booze, the drugs, the illegals, the cuban cigars, etc. the perspiring idiot ain't going to be the threat. it is false security but it plays well on tv. terrorists may be evil but not stupid.
*fr latin acceptable or welcomed person
... that such questions are a be-all and catch-all for border security. Nobody is belaboring under a false sense of security, but you are imparting an almost mythical quality of perfection to the terrorists who aren't that perfect by any stretch of the imagination. Will a highly trained terrorist always crack under pressure? No. But if they are given questions that make them think, or even just increase by a short length of time the interaction between the border agent and the terrorist, it may be enough to make them nervous. You may recall that there were a bunch of terrorists stopped trying to enter Washington state a while back who were stopped merely because the agent sensed something "fishy" about them. Don't underestimate the power of the sixth sense of human contact.
I remember back in the days of using a fake ID to get into the bars, the bouncers had questions to trip you up. Even the coolest cucumber sometimes flubbed an answer and was snagged. Just because they sometimes got in nonetheless was no reason the bouncers shouldn't have used those methods to flush out fakers at all.
A conservative would have answered, "tax cuts for the rich".
Dan
it must come from your many years of critical political analysis, historical investigation, clear thinking, endless soul searching, unbridled search for the truth or you were lazy and located the conservative mantra.
I think they say 'tax cuts benefit everone'. the laughter from me is not in the quote.
as usual. but I look good with a patch and can still type with my hook.
Your joke is not funny because "tax cuts for the rich" is a Liberal diatribe mantra, while my joke is funny because it is based on truth. Don't quit your day job. (unless you are a comedian)
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