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Originally Posted by texas*princess
That's actually surprising. During my ONE trip to Mexico I found it was easier to come back to the U.S. than it was to get into Mexico.
I went with a big group and we didn't get back to the border until maybe 11 PM. Maybe the Border Guy was tired or something, but he honestly didn't even look at our passports/birth certs.
When I was going through (we had to go through on foot because our U.S. transportation was waiting on the other side) the Agent didn't not even glance at my birth certificate all he asked in a tired voice was "did you bring anything?" I said no and that was it.
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What is it about customs agents and border patrol? Both of my stories have to do with customs agents at the same friggin' airport (Charlotte). When I was a senior in college, I took a special topics class on Cuba. Part of the class was to go on a trip to Cuba during Spring Break (which was AWESOME, btw). Everything there was so cheap, and the rum and cigars were, of course, two of the items I wanted to definitely bring back with me. So I bought about 8 bottles of rum (they were probably $6 each) and three boxes of cigars. When we came back to the states via Charlotte, I had my bottles of rum in a carry-on with me. When I sat my bag down to show the agent my passport and documentation, he heard the clink from the bottles. He said, "Ma'am, what's in your bag?" I told him I had rum. He asked me, "Ma'am, are you 21?" I told him that he had my passport, he could see that I was. Then he let me go without searching me. *whew* A friend of mine in the class wasn't so lucky. She wasn't 21, so they confiscated everything she had brought back. It sucked for her.