Kevin Wayne Williams wrote:

> What language do they write your re-entry permits in? My wife spent a 
> long time in the states this year, and returned on a one-way ticket. To 
> board the plane she had to demonstrate that she was allowed to enter the 
> country on a one way, but all she had to show the airlines was a Dutch 
> reentry permit. They finally decided that if she had Dutch paperwork, 
> they would let the Dutch speaking people on the other end sort it out.

Who is the "they" in this example?  The Government (probably represented 
by "those shit-for-brains, overweight, knuckle-dragging, 
high-school-equilvalency-test-passing, uniformed equal opportunity 
program fuckwits in Homeland Security" *) or the Airline (probably 
represented by a 40-something C-average B-school grad of a state college 
in the Midwest who had recently achieved promotion to 
fuku-kakaricho-dairi)?

My guess is that your wife was caused these headaches by the company 
that didn't want to have to provide her a free seat back to the US if 
she didn't get let into Netherlands territory and not the Government 
which might have had someone available to call a Consulate if there 
really had been a problem.  I've had to remind corporate types several 
times that travel documents are issued by Governments and private 
companies do best when they mind their own effing business.

* a term I learned from the former head of a US State Police agency

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CL