<story><title>No one should have to travel in fear</title><url>https://medium.com/@andreasgal/no-one-should-have-to-travel-in-fear-b2bff4c460e5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>komali2</author><text>Dunno what to do about this. I think TSA is a sham and a waste of my money. I think border control is taking my money and using it to abuse people. I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s ok that I can pay to avoid the poor people line at the airport.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve written my reps and the president, I call about once a month, but it has no measurable effect. Smarter people than me have done audits on TSA and published them in famous newspapers to show how useless they are. There&amp;#x27;s people fighting against CBP locking up asylum seekers but it still happens.&lt;p&gt;Dunno what to do. Partner and I are considering abandoning the USA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timdev2</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t disagree substantively with your sentiments, but you&amp;#x27;re conflating TSA and CBP.&lt;p&gt;TSA is ostensibly about security on airplanes (or more realistically &amp;quot;security theatre&amp;quot;), and are not law enforcement.  You primarily deal with them before getting on an airplane in the US, for nearly all commercial flights (both international and domestic).&lt;p&gt;CBP are law enforcement officers in the customs (contraband, taxes, etc) and immigration (passport control, visas) domains operating at the border.  If you&amp;#x27;re traveling by plane, you primarily deal with them after you disembark from an international flight.</text></comment>
<story><title>No one should have to travel in fear</title><url>https://medium.com/@andreasgal/no-one-should-have-to-travel-in-fear-b2bff4c460e5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>komali2</author><text>Dunno what to do about this. I think TSA is a sham and a waste of my money. I think border control is taking my money and using it to abuse people. I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s ok that I can pay to avoid the poor people line at the airport.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve written my reps and the president, I call about once a month, but it has no measurable effect. Smarter people than me have done audits on TSA and published them in famous newspapers to show how useless they are. There&amp;#x27;s people fighting against CBP locking up asylum seekers but it still happens.&lt;p&gt;Dunno what to do. Partner and I are considering abandoning the USA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Diederich</author><text>&amp;gt; Partner and I are considering abandoning the USA.&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts about where you&amp;#x27;d move?  Some places in the world are better, but it feels like our whole civilization is trending in this bad direction.</text></comment>