[mothballed]

Going through CBP is such a nightmare, even as a US citizen, I also think twice about going on international vacation. I hate entering my own country, every other country is so much easier, a deep sense of dread enters every time I have to go back to the USA because I know I will be fucked with by the border police.

I try not to let them influence my behavior too much, but at the end of the day, getting thrown in immigration jail on false accusations (yes happened to me despite presenting US passport) or detained for 12+ hours (also happened several times) puts constraints on vacation plans.

[raw_anon_1111]

Most of my flying back into the US has been through ATL and once through LAX. It wasn’t bad.

We just had to wait 3 hours in line to get into Costa Rica.

[dawnerd]

Really depends where your entry point is. They’ve moved to digital gates which have made actual cbp interactions basically a thing of the past. Last couple times I didn’t even have to take my passport out.

[fragmede]

As you said, depends on your gate of entry. At some of them, they took the digital gates out after installing them.