Originally Posted by
Dannyboy39
I’ve flown into about 25 different airports this year as SLF. America continues to baffle me in terms of how they treat everyone as a terrorist. I flew through MIA in the summer - 10 people ahead of me in the queue as I was one of the first people to get off the plane. Still a 15 minute wait.
As a consequence of Brexit, Schengen border staff are asking far more questions and again, treating people like vermin.
Passengers don’t deserve to be treated with such disdain. Border staff worldwide need to realise they are the entry point to a country - give people a good first impression. Stop this “harsh environment” bollocks.
The best border staff I’ve cross across in the world are in Ireland, hands down. Very pleasant and will even ask how your day was and wave you through.
In fairness, UKBA were treating arrivals like "vermin" since Teresa May's days at the Home Office when the Daily Mail (or similar rag) did an expose on the light touch checks they were doing at the border. Since then they've been interrogating families as though they were illegal until proven otherwise. They are probably one of the biggest wastes of public money where savings could be found easily.
Curiously since Brexit the delays entering the EU seem very small, limited to getting the passport stamped. No hassle, not stupid questions about where are going / have been none of which I feel, as a UK citizen, I should have to answer on entry to UK, and when I arrive at Eurotunnel rarely give a "complete" answer to - but I never lie! (not because I have anything to hide, but because its none of their bl00dy business!