Message #11122

[laundryhater]

We honeymooned in Puerta Vallarta, Mexico in October of 1999.



We brought our birthcertificates (proof of U.S. citizenship) and were fully prepared to present them to customs on our way back into the states.



To our surprise, we did not need to present these. When we got off the plane there was a stop light thing everyone exiting the plane had to pass through. If the light was green we were free to go without being frisked or anything. If the light was red, you were taken aside and frisked and everything. It was a very random screening process. I was shocked to realize how lax airport security was. Any one of those passengers who was allowed to pass through on the green light could have been a terrorist or illegal alien or smuggling in drugs, etc.



From that time on, I have lost a sense of security and trust in our U.S. customs practices.