No free pass to Indian celebriies, VIPs at US airports (Part – II)

No free pass to Indian celebriies, VIPs at US airports (Part – II)

"We want people to understand the importance of it, and we are keeping people safe, and it’s – we want people to have the confidence that it’s safe and secure to come here, and part of those processes is (to) ensure that. So we do ask for the public’s patience
in helping us help them and make sure all those requirements are met," he said when his attention was drawn to the inconvenience caused to VIPs and celebrities at airports in the US. Sent at 6:48 PM on Friday Amitabh: Right now, Wagner said, the US is in discussions
with a lot of different governments.

"It works on a reciprocal basis and some level of agreement on a level of background checks each country will do. So it’s a matter of whether we can reach agreement with those countries and they’re willing and able to do types of checks, and we can negotiate
a threshold for qualifying our participation in that," he said.

His comments came nearly two months after Shahrukh Khan was detained at a New York airport for over two hours by immigration officials after he arrived from India in a private plane to address students at Yale University.

Later, US authorities expressed "profound" apology in a letter to the Indian mission in US on the April 13 incident. Former President AP J Abdul Kalam was twice subjected to frisking at New York’s JFK Airport by US security officials who even took his jacket
and shoes to check for explosives.

India’s former ambassador to the US Meera Shanker was pulled from an airport security line and patted down by a security agent in Mississippi in December 2010.

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