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In reply to the discussion: British holidaymakers 'traumatised' after arrest at US border [View all]LisaM
(27,889 posts)We bought a pretty minimal amount of alcohol to bring back, and purposely stayed under the limit we were told was legal. There is a US Customs at the Dublin airport, so you can go through it there, and when we declared it, the woman insisted I was over the limit. I just said, "oh, I thought we were under the limit from what they told us", and she interrupted me, and said, "you're over the limit, but I'm going to let you through anyway!"
I said thanks, but it was so frustrating because I really wanted to pull out what I had and ask her what the limit was and how it was that I'd gone over it, but I frankly was afraid to.
I don't know what is going on to make the agents so surly and me, a perfectly law-abiding, non-threatening U.S. citizen loaded with all kinds of enhanced ID, so afraid, but I don't like it.