"Gogarty" wrote in message
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If you can possibly avoid it, stay out of the US altogether. Other
countries
have transit facilities at their airportts that allow you to pass into and
out of the airport while enroute to someplace else without going through
customs and immigration. Not the US. No matter what your final
destination,
if you transit the US you must go through Customs and Immigration. That is
to be avoided at all costs if you can.

Yes I suspected that and plan B was to fly via Mexico City but the only
flights I could find go on to transit Miami so I'd be in the same situation.