On the wall ‘security is your business.’

I don’t belong here.
I’m not a criminal.
I bellow somewhere inside.

Hauled into Secondary Inspection.
I already waited in the Manzanillo Airport for six hours today.
I changed my flight to Phoenix through Dallas to Los Angelos.
I am missing my connecting flight.

I have Nexus.
But a storm’s in Texas.

I’ve been flagged for ties & equities.
They believe I want to live in the United States.

Nguyen : This is not the first time you’ve been here right?
Where are you from?

Me : Gibsons Landing, BC.

Nguyen: Where was your passport made?
Me : Vancouver, BC

Nguyen : No it wasn’t.
Me : Then I don’t know where it was made.

Nguyen : It was made in Mississauga, Ontario.
Me: That’s right. I remember when I applied for it, I mailed my application to Mississauga.

Nguyen : Oh so now you’re changing your story.
(I don’t know what to say.)

Nguyen : If you lived in BC, your passport woulda been made there.
I know because I worked in Toronto and all Torontonian passports are made there.

Where are the law enforcers?
When I think about it, I go mad.

I should not be overly caffeinated right now.
They let two people go who have expired passports. The whole room was cleared.

Another flight has landed. The room is filling up with more people to search & detain.
Still they have not called my name. Scream.

Nguyen: Next time you go through US Customs, bring proof of property ownership in Canada. They fingerprint an East Indian woman. An officer says to an Asian woman after he had interrogated her

“Git outa here.” i got outa there.