customs and border protection
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U.S. Customs Fails To Delete Personal Data After Electronic Searches At Border, Watchdog Says
Last year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) searched through the electronic devices of more than 29,000 travellers coming into the country. CBP officers sometimes upload personal data from those devices to Homeland Security servers by first transferring that data onto USB drives — drives that are supposed to be deleted after every use. But…
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American Arrested For Using Drone To Smuggle 6kg Of Meth From Mexico
This undated photo provided by the US Customs and Border Protection shows a 0.61m-high drone that a border patrol agent spotted swooping over the border fence on August 8, 2017 near a San Diego border crossing (via AP) President Trump’s proposed wall along the US-Mexico border is stupid for many reasons. But one of the…
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There’s Meth In These Burritos
US border agents near Nogales, AZ were busy this past weekend. In five busts, they confiscated a buffet of hard drugs inbound from Mexico — a haul valued at a combined $US928,000 ($1,292,860). The best part of the whole thing was this pair of meth burritos.
