(Did you need to call me "a jerk"?) OK, I'll bite... Perhaps I didn't put enough emphasis on the "making a scene" part and didn't explicitly put he was asking

(Did you need to call me "a jerk"?) OK, I'll bite... Perhaps I didn't put enough emphasis on the "making a scene" part and didn't explicitly put he was asking about things out of his sphere. He was talking in a very aggressive tone in Spanish after he saw I could speak English fluently, after I showed him both my European and US visas, and after I explained it was a trip to my employer's HQ. He wasn't saying "como esta amigo", he was asking random questions that didn't make any sense related to migrations and completely unrelated to customs. I've been many times through different airports in US and never a customs officer asked me those questions. Specially in front of other people. It went on for at least 10 minutes while people were almost walking by in the other queue (including a friend of mine who had to wait and later told me he was thinking in calling the office for help.) I was the only one stopped out of dozens of people, just after he noticed my passport was from south of the border. At that point I decided I rather get rejected from US and perhaps lose my job. And you know, if US rejects your visa, for whatever reason, you never get another one again. Luckily most people present clearly thought the guy was out of line. This random uneducated guy on a power trip surprised me because it happened just a few minutes after maybe the nicest migrations interview I ever had (we even talked about football and his recent holidays in South America while we had to wait for a software reboot of some kind.) This is why I put the "to be fair" disclaimer on migrations vs. Customs and TSA/Homeland Security. Normal in exchange with customs on every other country in the world: * In the most common case you just walk. * Second most common, one question: Something to declare? * Worst possible case, rare: Can you please take your luggage over here?