Secondary screening hassles - civil liberties violation ?

[vsridharca]

thanks for taking the time to review my question. i am became a permanent resident oct 15, 2004 (employment category). since then, i have been outside the country and back about 5 times since the green card approval. Each time i come back i have been subjected to secondary inspection at passport cntrl, and been asked the same set of questions, as to for ex: if i have visited las vegas or taken aerospace engg courses etc. i have written to customs and talked to the sf USCIS with no help in trying to resolve this. one airport customs agent said i might be on a TECS II database. i have a clean record (no criminal offenses etc). Would anybody have any suggestions or advice in resolving this matter.

 

[wik]

If you believe this is a Civil Liberties violation, you could contact the ACLU. Also, you could relay your story to your congressman. Another tactic, if you don't mind the exposure, is to make it a press story with a local but major newspaper. If you believe you were treated unfairly by the POE officer, then you can also file a complaint; there is a link on the USCIS Web site (I forget where exactly) that gives you instructions on how to file a (high-level) complaint against the way you were treated. There seem to be all sorts of databases populated with flaky information upon which government agencies are 'relying'. It could be something as simple as a soundex match in some obscure and unpublic database. Sorry you are going through such as hassle.