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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Welcome to Chinese Operatives
Date: 01/16/24 5:30 PM
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They will still ask you what your name is, where you're from, what happened to you in your country of origin, how did you get here, etc.
Hi, my name is < > and I'm from Somalia and it's very hard for me there. I have family in Minnesota that I can stay with. I paid a man to take me and my 3 cousins over the border after we flew to Venezuela from Mogadishu. I lost all my documents because the man I paid turned out to be a bad man.

They actually do an interview, and you have to be able to provide sufficient details about the persecution that you experienced in order to pass that interview.

Riiiight. Nobody ever leaks details of what to say during interviews. Never happens.

And you stay in detention all the while. You have to be able to lie convincingly in a one-on-one interview with a DHS official who has absolutely no reason to think that he'll get in trouble for dinging you, a random Yemeni with no legal representation (as opposed to pretending to be a Saudi businessman).

Ha. The DHS official knows he can't hold anybody for a long period of time. The incentives are to release, not hold.

But do you genuinely believe that a terrorist organization that's capable of doing real harm to the U.S. can't do something like get a fake or stolen or bought passport?

Sure they can. Evidently it's very easy to get a US passport.

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