Nine years ago I worked at JFK international airport as an airport technician. Customs can be a real pain. They kept checking my ID badge everytime. They kept bothering me when I would go there to inspect the baggage monitors and the PA systems. They found out that my wife worked at the Federal Courthouse where they would take their illeagal passengers.
Then they wanted to be nice, but I stayed firm. I was also an AOA issuing officer. Youn see, they couldn't do their job without an AOA badge either.
Which ment that my badge was a much higher grade than theirs.
It's weard at customs. You're neither in the country nor on the border. I've heard of people disapearing from customs without a trace. But what bothered me the most, was the way that they treated human beings in a strange coutry to them. They all think that they're above the law.
I went to Canada about ten years ago through Baffalo with my family and my mother was with us. On the Niagra Falls tour bus this customs agent treated this little old lady like if she was a terrorist. Screamming at the top of his lungs at her because she forgot her birth certificate. There were two others that were with her that could have vouched for her. He told them to shut the F up.
I just wish I had taken my AOA badge with me that day, just to put him in his place and talk to his superiors about his bedside manners. He made her cry from the embarasment. She was old enough to be his grandmother.
He could have handled it in a diplomatic manner instead of putting on a show.
I was raised to respect and take care of all the elders.
Maybe he didn't get any the night before.
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