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When I was stationed at MCAS Yuma, a few of us would make semi-routine trips to the Corona distributer in Algodonas, Mexico.
One trip, as we were comming back across the border with 18 cases of "Mas Finas Cervesa", the BP agent asked each of us "Where were you born?". Everything went just fine until LCpl Robles truthfully answered "Columbia, South America". None of us had any idea that red headed, freckle faced Robles was a naturalized citizen of Columbian / Spanish decent. We assumed he just didn't sleep in HS Spanish class. It took about 30 minutes to get everything straightned out with ALL of us and the beer back in the USA.
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I have a friend (former Detroit PD - retired) that HATED going to Canada cause he got hassled at the border by customs one time real bad... (course after he told me the story...I laughed because he was hassled coming BACK into the U.S., so it was actually OUR customs that gave him the hard tiome, not the Canadians.
and this was YEARS ago.
Anyways, apparantly coming back across, (and he has an "ethnic name") the customs guy is is giving our Mr. Juoz a hard time, and asks him where does he live?, (Detroit), citizenship? (U.S.), where were you born?, ( xxxxxx, Germany)where do you work? (Detroit PD), so the customs guy starts in about my friend couldn't be a cop cause he wasn't born here, and he was naturalized and all that, but my friend wasn't naturalized, he was born on a U.S. Military Base in Germany where his Dad was stationed!
I remember one time coming across the border home with my sister from visiting my Grandmother in Windsor when I was a kid (my Mom is from Canada) and the agent was asking all kinds of questions to her, where did she work, what school she graduated from, what hospital she was born at.... that was probably 15 years or so ago.
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