Update 2019; things are now much clearer. These untrained thugs, as it turns out, have diplomatic immunity. In short, even while on Irish soil, they can do ANYTHING THEY WANT to you. So the provisions stating that you can back out of the process at any time are nonsense. They can assault you, arrest you, kill you and it's all "legal". As I recall, their treatment of al-Baghdadi in similar circumstances is what started ISIS.
Finally, our quisling state keeps insisting that they are unarmed. something perforated my skin.
2018 account
Gardai have formally requested video
To
answer the question about jurisdiction it turns out that the American
Immigration runs a pre-clearance area in Dublin with their own
uniformed and armed staff. These are the guys who attacked me .
Specifically
what happened is issues came up above my eligibility to come in on a
tourist visa. I've made no bones whatsoever in previous interviews
with them in the last few years about this and I was being open
with them saying that I run an online research company..that of
course means does inevitably I will be doing some work on that in the
United States when I'm over seeing Melanie. I have
indeed run academic conferences in the US since 2012. The day
academics need business visas to attend and run academic
conferences
in another country, that country will have no more
academic conference
However
when this issue came up this time I was told that they rendered my
application to enter the United States invalid. This is the point
that things got ugly. I said fair enough just give me back my
passport and my phone which they had seized. I assumed I was free to
go but that actually was not the case. The official who had my phone
and passport assaulted me and I ran across the airport floor back to
Ireland as I saw it. This is not how they saw it and 10 of them run
after me and assaulted me from behind drawing blood in the process.
They then locked me in there little in there little Guantanamo in
their section of the airport doing a full a full Frisk including a
crotch search. I was refused access to a department of Foreign
Affairs official. When the Irish airport cops arrived to get me there
was a marked change of attitude and the Irish took all their names
and then advised me to go to the police station to make a formal
complaint of the assault which drew blood which I have done
This is the
situation; I was detained without being so informed. When I broke
away from my detainer I shouted “this is Ireland” which did not
stop at least 10 CBP thugs chasing me outside their own zone in
Ireland. They then dragged me back and locked me up, I might still be
there had the airport police not seen things my way, take their
names, and advise me to make a formal complaint
This is how the
jurisdictional issue arises;
Agreement
between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United
States of America on Air Transport Preclearance - TREATY SERIES 2010
Nº 12
*****************
S.I. No.
9/2011 - Preclearance Area (Dublin Airport) Regulations 2011.
******************
4.1 Customs
and Border Protection (CBP) Pre-clearance:
The US CBP
agency provides carriers bound for the United States with US CBP
pre-clearance facilities
in Dublin
Airport’s Terminal 2. These facilities offer US-bound passengers
departing Dublin a range of
services
that can be completed prior to departure, including all customs, US
immigration and agriculture
clearance.
The daa pre-clearance charge for the use of CBP pre-clearance
facilities at Dublin Airport is
set out
below:
Service
Charge € Description
CBP
pre-clearance charge* 7.90 Per passenger
*This
charge is zero rated for VAT.
This daa
CBP pre-clearance charge is distinct from any other pre-clearance
charge(s) that may be
levied by
the US CBP agency on passengers travelling to the United States.
All
enquiries can be addressed to: Gary McLean Head of Op - Phone
353 1 944 2748
*******************
USCBP
Preclearance Locations
Dublin
Airport, U.S. Customs & Border Protection, Terminal 2, Pier E,
Dublin, Ireland 011 353-1248-0300
*******************
The Irish
Times: Wed, Feb 1, 2017
Government
keen to maintain US immigration preclearance facilities at Irish
airports
‘Complete
review’ of the Dublin and Shannon facilities will continue,
officials say
Review:
According
to the Government briefing, a group of senior officials from both the
Irish and US governments meet annually to review the operation of the
agreement. The Preclearance Consultative Group, which includes
representatives from the US Department of Homeland Security, Customs
and Border Protection and the Transportation Security Administration
and from the Irish Department of Transport and Dublin and Shannon
airports, is due to have its next meeting on March 1st.
***************
Irish
Independent - February 1 2017
Pre-clearance
at airport is 'critically important' for our country, says DAA boss
**************
01-Jun-2016
CAPA
US
immigration pre-clearance: Dublin Airport's rapid growth has been
supported by enhanced US access
How the
pre-clearance procedure is impacting airports
The
countries where the pre-clearance procedure is already in place, at
selected airports are: Canada, Ireland, the UAE (specifically Abu
Dhabi), the Caribbean (Aruba, the Bahamas) and the North Atlantic
(Bermuda) as in the table above.
Dublin (and
Shannon) airports are five-year veterans at pre-clearance. Dublin
makes for an interesting case study.
Ireland is
the only country in Europe to offer pre-clearance for travellers
flying to the US, and has done so for over five years. The service is
available for those departing from Dublin and Shannon airports.
At Dublin
the Customs & Border Protection pre-clearance (CBP p/c)
initiative, which was installed in 2010 as part of the Terminal 2
project, is described as having ‘worked well.’ In summer 2015 all
US bound flights pre-cleared at Dublin. Since 1986 the two countries
had previously had a pre-inspection agreement - allowing immigration
inspections but not customs or agriculture inspections.
There has
been a particular focus on growing trans-Atlantic traffic at Dublin
in recent years. Not for the first time - Aer Lingus was active in
this segment in the 1980s, attempting to build Dublin as a hub, but
lost its way later. And this time around it is not just Aer Lingus,
which has become a member of International Airlines Group (IAG) and
could become a focus of transatlantic hub activity for that group.
Trans-Atlantic airlines now include Air Canada Rouge; Air Transat;
American; Delta; Ethiopian (to LAX); United; US Airways; ASL Airlines
(previously Europe Airpost) and WestJet.
As a
consequence, Dublin is the fifth largest airport in Europe for
trans-Atlantic flights and it increased its trans-Atlantic passenger
numbers by 17% in 2015. Transfer passenger numbers increased by 27%
as Dublin Airport continued to become a significant hub for
trans-Atlantic transfers.
In 1Q2016
the number of passengers connecting from the UK and mainland Europe
and transferring onwards to the United States increased by 68%. The
increase in the reverse direction was 72%.
That is not
to claim that the CBP p/c is uniquely responsible for these results.
As the airport's operator, daa (Dublin Airport Authority), points
out, Dublin Airport is helped by its geographic position on the
western edge of Europe and the strong route network to North America,
Europe and the Middle East, as well as the availability of US CBP.
This means
shorter flying times and less backtracking of connections. Not
mentioned, but also important, is a comparatively passenger friendly
tax regime, especially when contrasted with the UK's.
Nevertheless
the influence of the CBP p/c can perhaps be gauged from this
advertisement from Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport, one of many
(there are 21 in the UK) with ‘feeder’ flights that connect with
Aer Lingus services to the US. The CBP p/c procedure is couched in
such a way as to make it appear as if it has been arranged for the
benefit of Liverpool Airport’s own passengers, which in a way it
has, conferring as it does a special status on them, one which they
cannot get ‘on a direct flight’ (i.e. from a competing airport).
This very
positive marketing for Dublin suggests it could become as important
for westbound transit from the UK and vice versa as Amsterdam
Schiphol Airport is, eastbound.
Misc
To answer the
question about jurisdiction it turns out that the
American
Immigration runs a pre-clearance area in Dublin with their
own
uniformed and armed staff. These are the guys who attacked me
.
Specifically what happened is issues came up above my
eligibility to
come in on a tourist visa. I've made no bones
whatsoever in previous
interviews with them in the last few years
about this and I was being
open with them saying that I run an
online research company..that of
course means does inevitably I
will be doing some work on that in the
United States when I'm over
seeing Melanie. I have indeed run academic
conferences in
the US since 2012. The day academics need business
visas to attend
and run academic conferences
in another country, that
country will have no more academic conference
However when
this issue came up this time I was told that they
rendered my
application to enter the United States invalid. This is
the point
that things got ugly. I said fair enough just give me back
my
passport and my phone which they had seized. I assumed I was free
to
go but that actually was not the case. The official who had my
phone
and passport assaulted me and I ran across the airport floor
back
to Ireland as I saw it. This is not how they saw it and 10 of
them
run after me and assaulted me from behind drawing blood in
the
process. They then locked me in there little in there
little
Guantanamo in their section of the airport doing a full a
full Frisk
including a crotch search. I was refused access to a
department of
Foreign Affairs official. When the Irish airport
cops arrived to get
me there was a marked change of attitude and
the Irish took all their
names and then advised me to go to
the police station to make a
formal complaint of the assault which
drew blood which I have done
This is the situation; I was
detained without being so informed. When
I broke away from my
detainer I shouted “this is Ireland” which did
not stop at
least 10 CBP thugs chasing me outside their own zone in
Ireland.
They then dragged me back and locked me up, I might still be
there
had the airport police not seen things my way, take
their
names, and advise me to make a formal complaint
This
is how the jurisdictional issue arises;
Agreement between the
Government of Ireland and the Government of the
United States of
America on Air Transport Preclearance - TREATY SERIES
2010 Nº
12
https://www.dfa.ie/media/dfa/alldfawebsitemedia/treatyseries/uploads/documents/legaldivisiondocuments/treatyseries2010/no.-12-of-2010.pdf
*****************
S.I.
No. 9/2011 - Preclearance Area (Dublin Airport) Regulations
2011.
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2011/si/9/made/en/print
******************
4.1
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Pre-clearance:
The US CBP
agency provides carriers bound for the United States with
US CBP
pre-clearance facilities
in Dublin Airport’s Terminal 2. These
facilities offer US-bound
passengers departing Dublin a range
of
services that can be completed prior to departure, including
all
customs, US immigration and agriculture
clearance. The daa
pre-clearance charge for the use of CBP
pre-clearance facilities
at Dublin Airport is
set out below:
Service Charge €
Description
CBP pre-clearance charge* 7.90 Per passenger
*This
charge is zero rated for VAT.
This daa CBP pre-clearance
charge is distinct from any other
pre-clearance charge(s) that may
be
levied by the US CBP agency on passengers travelling to the
United States.
All enquiries can be addressed to: Gary
McLean Head of Op - Phone 353
1 944
2748
https://www.dublinairport.com/docs/default-source/Airport-Charges/2017-miscellaneous-charges-booklet.pdf?sfvrsn=0
*******************
USCBP
Preclearance Locations
Dublin Airport, U.S. Customs &
Border Protection, Terminal 2, Pier E,
Dub