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thenewgreen  ·  4777 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: You Want to Track Me? Here You Go, F.B.I.
It's beyond excessive, is't obsessive.

I've never gone through anything like this but I get taken aside for increased security checks about 80% of the time when I travel. I'm 3rd generation US citizen but my mother is of mexican decent and my father German. Phenotypically, this must equate to "crazy looking terrorist guy" because I almost always get searched. The last time, they swabbed all my belongings and ran them through some machine to make sure there was not any trace of explosive. Really? Me? I'm a lover, not a fighter.