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Might be stepping up efforts? Just came back to the US from Mexico (Yucatán) with partner and kids, had to make a drug dog walk (you walk at a steady pace as the drug dogs are exposed to you during the 10 meter walk) in the terminal.

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Have had to do the drug dog walk the last few times I flew out of JFK. It seems to move lines much quicker and allows laptops, etc. to stay in bags going through the scanners. Think it's something we'll see more and more of, which is fine by me but they don't make much allowance for children who have no idea what is going on, in my experience (try telling two young kids that they have to walk side by side at a set pace and not touch the doggy)

Why are you fine with strong armed, authoritarian policies that target vulnerable populations while leaving the architects of death unharmed?

The problem with poisoned drugs was created by doctors, corporations, the police, and politicians. Cartel king pins, plus smaller "mom & pop shops" (~$10ks-millions operations) play their role, but the vast majority of people caught will be stupid and/or desperate smucks, who have done practically nothing.

These will be the people doing life sentences. The cartels leaders almost always get away (until maybe they die). The "mom & pop" shops I mentioned, often quite large in their own respect do get busted from time to time... however the majority of time in prison will be done by pawns, especially from these types of busts.

Then the government spikes the ball and does a victory dance, while most of society is "fine" with it... yet things consistently get worse. More violence, more dirty money, corruption, overdoses, etc.

Please don't twist my words. You know I didn't say anything of the sort and yours is a bad faith response. I will not engage.

You just did. You engaged. This is valid criticism, and not at all in bad faith.

I think that's been the practice for sometime now; we had to do the same thing at Puerto Vallarta's airport a few years back.

Not sure that's a drug dog. More likely simply a dog trained to sniff explosives. I know this because I've been made to walk the dog walk while unknowingly carrying things I should not have been carrying. The dogs never suspected a thing.

Not all dogs are trained on all drugs. I once met a dog that was only trained on various substances cartels use to mask the smell of drugs.

I had to do something similar in the Denver airport recently.

They're really stepping up. Last year they dragged me into a hospital in cuffs and told the doctors to "inspect" inside my GI tract. That was a better part of a day affair along with a federal warrant and the works. A dog never even alerted (and even verbally told so by CBP, although the warrant lied and said otherwise). They also have a network of hospitals with staff openly hostile to tourists, who are fine acting even without a warrant or consent and a complaint to the state board results in the medical professional boards telling you that a patient has no right to deny consent even without a court order.

uh, what? what was the lead up to this?

Few hours walking around in a border town and eating lunch from what I recall. When I crossed back there were a whole team of people working me over and HSI got involved. No idea what triggered them. When they found nothing they sent the debt collectors chasing me for the hospital bill, obviously that won't be paid so I look forward to the lawsuit.

edit: to note I don't know If I'm actually going to be sued, just will definitely find it humorous if they do so.

I would guess that the very temporary nature of your trip looked like you were just there to collect something and come right back. None of which justifies the subsequent outcome. Good luck in your lawsuit.

How is the hospital bill your responsibility in this situation? That’s crazy pants and just evil

>How is the hospital bill your responsibility in this situation?

Exactly but on the other hand, if not his responsibility, could acting suspicious be a free GI check hack? Health coverage can be expensive in the US.

Hack methodology:

1. Sprinkle tiny amount of drugs on yourself

2. Go to border

3. Free GI check

4. Profit?

This almost sounds like a combo of bad profiling software that flagged you and then parallel construction using the dog as cover.

If you have the time and all, definitely start throwing lawsuits and hit hard in discovery.

That's what the 2nd amendment is for

CBP can do whatever they want to anybody within a 100 mile radius of a border (maritime included) which is like, 70%+ of the US population.

Even though they’re complete fucking buffoons it’s a really good idea to not fuck with CBP, they get paid to fuck people up with impunity.

An international airport qualifies as a US border too. Think about that for a minute...

And elsewhere on order. Although Portland is within 100 miles, they were sent under a post 9/11 statutory authorization that would have enabled them to perform certain (not border/customs related) federal law enforcement actions anywhere.

Not sure I understand, are you saying GP should've pulled a gun on the cops?

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