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01-19-2012, 10:40 PM
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My brother just got back from his flight from my country and told me a few things about his experience at a particular airport on the way there. Just to let you know it was an international flight and not domestic.

Before leaving an airport in Michigan on the way out of the country there was an immigration checkpoint waiting right before boarding the plane checking for people's status. This was after they check your ticket at the actual gate, meaning it was at the little walkway before going inside the plane. My only concern is that why they would check your status when leaving the US. It was a connecting flight before leaving US soil so his immigration status wasn't checked flying to Michigan. I've flown numerous times within the US and have had no problems at any point. Was it because it was so close to the border?
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huh it was international flight but it was connecting in US?
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I live in Michigan too. I flew couple times before and never had any problem. The immigration checkpoint that you are taking about doesn't check your legal status in U.S. They just need to make sure your brother is citizen of the country/ have visa to your home country. All international flight will have a checkpoint like that.
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His original departure was within the US. The connecting flight was in Michigan prior to leaving the US bound for overseas. They checked his US immigration status right after going through the gate where they take your ticket before boarding the actual plane (the walkway area to get to the plane). I asked him multiple times and he was also surprised. He was also questioned about the amount of money he was taking out of the country when they were looking at his green card.
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Which airport in Michigan? You are scaring the sh*t out of me now.
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1)Well, the thing is that if you are leaving the country, the airline MUST check your documents. Why? If you fly to a country you aren't legally allowed in, that country can reject you and you must be flown back by that specific airline that accepted you, and the airline must pay for it themselves
It is on the airline to check and make sure you can go to that country.

2)The Supreme Court ruled that CBP has the legal authority to check immigration status and set up a checkpoint for such at any airport, seaport, roadway, etc. within 100 miles of any border. Because technically, you could skip across the border without inspection, then to avoid a road checkpoint you could jump on a plane and fly over it.

3) As a matter of course due to manpower and due to the fact that the Obama administration has scaled this back (which became very common during the Bush years), they DON'T check internal flights at all airports, especially ones near the northern border. They will still do it if you are flying from an airline near the southern border, say Laredo for instance.

4)If a President came to office and really wanted to clamp down, it would be within his legal authority to put checkpoints in airports for people flying within the US using Border Patrol within that 100 mile limit (and even more technically, if you are within 100 miles of an ocean, that is technically a border). So hope you don't get a President that actually does it.

I hope I answered you completely.
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I think you should have specified in the title that this is only pertinent if you're flying OUT of the United States. Which, think about it, checking documents makes sense.
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Yes if you're leaving the US they check for things like I-94
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