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[*] posted on 7-13-2010 at 04:46 PM


I suspected that there would be Baja stories on this subject. Thank you for posting them here.

I guess that, once your ID gets programmed into the system, it goes out to multiple organizations; bureaucracies. Once it is in there, it is either too difficult to reverse, or the lack of will to do so prevails, as in "it's not my job".

When important information needs to be coordinated between agencies, it gets botched and not shared. When information such as ID errors gets in there, it is willingly shared and seems to be impossible to get out. Homeland Security should be able to get a handle on it, but I guess that is too much to expect. :mad:




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[*] posted on 7-14-2010 at 09:52 AM


Bob and Susan, the first thing the border guys do is check your license plate number. They have their own system to track those numbers and any agent along the border can enter whatever nasty information they want about you. If you happen to get surly with an agent, or s/he just doesn't like the guests in your car, info can be entered that will send you to secondary every time. This happened to me several years ago, so I just went to DMV and got new license plates issued for my truck. No more problems.

Things may have changed lately, and maybe they have the same system for passport numbers now, but if you are repeatedly sent to secondary with minimal conversation, it's most likely a notation on your license plate file.




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