The Department of Homeland Security quietly expanded its authorization to examine, copy and archive an array of documents and electronic files from citizens and visitors crossing US borders, according to reams of internal documents released Tuesday.We've been planning this vacation to Canada for a while now, and I'm just not sure it's going to be the same without the suitcase full of amateur porn.
The changes implemented last year reverse a two-decade-old policy requiring border agents to have reasonable suspicion of a crime before reading documents someone is bringing into the country; probable cause was required before documents could be copied.
Those standards have been thrown out the window in favor of lenient standards that allow Customs and Border Patrol agents to read or copy essentially anything they would like from a person entering the United States. The new policies also make it easier for CBP to share documents it copies or confiscates with other law enforcement agencies.
(And you thought I was going to bitch about America becoming ever more fascist.)
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I'm just not sure it's going to be the same without the suitcase full of amateur porn.
I know. Suddenly it will be ten times better! I always pack the second bag with a collection of dildos and 23 well thumbed copies of Catcher in the Rye.
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