Rude US Customs Officials: How Not To Welcome People To The United States {Gadling}

Dec 20th 2012 12:58AM 100% accurate. I just came through O'Hare and although a UK citizen I was treated like I was Al Queda. The US citizens were cleared in no time while the cattle were hardly moving through. The CBP female officer (named Kois) would have been a guard at Auschwitz in another time. She was hostile, threatening to revoke my 10 year US visa because I was intending to stay for 5 months (although I am allowed 6 months under the visa). I got pulled aside and taken away to the processing area where I saw people being shouted at, humiliated and one young man pounced on by a gang of CBP officers, slammed against the wall, arms twisted up his back, handcuffed and dragged away. Admittedly he used the F word to one of the stormtroopers, but they all acted like he was carrying an arsenal of AK47's. One officer was heard saying to the other with glee 'He's going to pay for this'. These neanderthals should not be allowed access to uniforms and guns and allowed near the general public. Yes, I saw the happy smiling Americans on the TV's across the top of the booths, but there was no happy smiling ones manning the booths. Machine gun posts would not have been out of place. Although I had in excess of two hours to get my connecting flight to Seattle I was detained long enough to miss it and given back my passport and tickets 15 minutes before my flight left. I had travelled through O'hare last year and went through similar treatment, being hauled away to the same holding pen, but I thought that was a one of, boy was I wrong. Hell will freeze over before I go anywhere near O'hare again. Oh, before I forget. The wall the young man was slammed against held a sign with the CBP pledge displayed proudly. It read 'We pledge to cordially greet and welcome you to the United States' and ' We pledge to treat you with courtesy, dignity and respect'. It should be replaced with a sign above the door with 'Arbeicht Macht Frei' on it, it would be more appropriate.