Re: Sunday I reentered America at LAX and US Immigration "entry stamped" my US Passport.

you might get your passport reported when you leave BY AIR, but WALK out of
a country and nobody cares.

"PTRAVEL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "nobody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Simple business decision. If the government makes money re-issuing
> passports,
> > then it stands to gain by stamping US passports with as much useless
stuff
> as
> > possible so that you run out of space and need to request (and pay !)
for
> a
> > new passport.
> >
> > :-)
>
> I'm glad you included the smilely.
>
>
> > Consider the treatment the current USA regime gives to visitors to the
USA
> who
> > have overstayed a visa in the past.
>
> What treatment does the USA give visitors who have previously violated
> immigration laws?  The law is clear, as are the penalties for its
violation.
> Who goes to another country and believes they can violate the law with
> impunity?
>
> > Since the USA has every reason to fear
> > that other countries might treat USA citizens the same way USA treats
> their
> > citizens,
>
> "Fear"?  Have you travelled much internationally?  US immigration
procedures
> for _visitors_ are not particularly onerous, and considerably easier than
> those of a number of countries I've visited, many of which profess to be
> democracies.
>
> > then that stamp would help you get out of prison since it
> > implicitely proves you have left their country by entering the USA on a
> > specific date and thus hadn't overstayed your visa there.
>
> Oh, please . . what nonsense!  My passport is scanned whenever I depart a
> Schengen country (which has the most liberal . . . and reciprocal . . .
> entry requirements with respect to the US) and, I suppose, if I wanted to
> get an exit stamp I could.  I am, however, in the computer -- they know
when
> I entered, and they know when I left.  And, unlike the U.S., they know
every
> hotel I've stayed in, as my passport is taken from me and the information
> recorded and forwarded to the local police department.  I don't fear the
> procedure, or resent it.
>
> There's an awful lot about the U.S. that is very wrong just now.
> Immigration procedures for visitors isn't one of them.
>
> >
> > Come to think of it, any visitor to the USA should have their passport
> stamped
> > when they enter another country after leaving the USA. Since the USA
> doesn't
> > have exit controls and thus is  incapable of really tracking who has and
> > hasn't overstayed their visas, having a stamp from another country
proving
> you
> > had left the USA on such and such a date might be your ticket to prevent
a
> > visit to a USA prison.
>
>