You're a US citizen. Bend over.
They should have talked to Bill. He knows how to do it for free.
Sorry to hear this happened to an innocent woman but $475,000? I see trial lawyers lining up for a pay day.
[insert “you got off cheap” punchline about alimony here]
Typical US Government.
Paying $475,000 for what only would cost you $500 in Las Vegas.
After that, how could you not live out your life, every day LOATHING employees of the US federal government..?
I wanna see a photo of this lady.
I had a very buxom, knock-out friend who had to submit to one of these and had her suspicions about their motives, and had *I* been the agent with “random discretion”, you can bet 10,000% that I would have been interested in “inspecting” her.
It’s about turning us into submissive sheep. You want to come back home, we’re gonna pick 1 out of a hundred and check up their (censored). How’s that for submissive? Ya do that to a few thousand people and ya see how rapidly they start baaaaing like sheep, saying “yes sir” and “yes sir it’s Ok to look up my (censored)”
Meanwhile, that isn’t being done to muzzard women because we don’t want to “offend” them. Wanna bet they would happily do it to a Catholic nun?
Man! I really need to get me one of those vaginas!
Well, there’s a Drug War on, doncha know.
ACLU suing over reported body cavity drug searches (NM - Another invasive search by gov't agents)
And this one was done to a 18yr girl.
No US citizen should agree to such a request. I would have said, "Are you out of your freaking mind the answer is NO."
If they decided to get rough I would accommodate them and give them the fight of their lives. I would rather accept the beat down and then sue the hell out of them then to agree to be probed.
Just think about that: YOUR tax money is going to pay off the US government’s sexual assault victims.
Did they themselves feel any painful, negative consequences earned by and due their actions??
Or were their painful, negative consequences simply passed on to we, the taxpayers, so that NOTHING ever changes???
Pingaling- Another New Mexican citizen subjected to hours of X-rays and cavity probes.
The filed lawsuit reads like a sexual torture session.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2996966-Doevelpasohospdist-Filed.html
That being said, I have a hard time understanding how ‘trained’ CBP agents have acted soooooo stupidly! I live in this area and know a number of moral and decent CBP agents who work this region, and I cannot possibly imagine the ones I know doing something like this. Quite the contrary, they’d be much more likely to respond to the treatment of ‘Jane Doe’ much the same way FReepers say they would! These so called ‘doctors’ who performed the ‘examinations’ are absolutely without excuse, but it comes as no surprise to me, because ‘doctors’ of the same mind set who work at the Gila Regional Medical Center (the largest hospital near the border in SW New Mexico) have done the EXACT SAME THING to other unsuspecting victims around this same time frame (2012).
According to the lawsuit, Mrs ‘Jane Doe’ of Lovington NM recently received her passport and had been looking forward to traveling abroad. Also noted was that she has a close friend whom she referred to as her “uncle”, who had been deported, that she makes an effort to visit at least once a month in Juarez. It would be very interesting to know why the close ‘uncle’ had been deported since here in New Mexico it seems that NONE of the illegals here ever get deported short of committing some violent crime or ‘major’ drug offense, and even then, they usually just come right back across the border and take up where they left off. It is very possible the CBP agents had much more undisclosed information regarding Mrs Jane Doe’s activities and association with the ‘Uncle’, but there’s absolutely NO excuse for their prolonged sexual violation of her once their initial ‘cavity free’ search came up negative.
In the future, IF it is found that Mrs Jane Doe is indeed involved with drug smuggling, and/or the Mexican cartels, which are VERY active in smuggling in this area, I hope her activities become abundantly clear, leaving no room for doubt, and that she’s busted in a way that will fine her for more than double that which she has now received from the U.S. taxpayers. Until that time comes, if ever, she absolutely IS an innocent victim and richly deserves every penny she has received for arguably the worst 6 hours of her life, which could be described as nothing less than rape and sexual torture perpetrated by so called ‘doctors’ and CBP officers of the United States.
The government settled because they did not want this to go to court...if they lose one of these sort of cases then they have to stop this type of thing. Most case law pretty much says Customs can do as they please at the borders as far as searching, probing you, taking apart your vehicle. The government doesn't want any court decisions that say otherwise.
I understand to her a settlement meant she didn't have to go through the court testimony and could just go on with her life. As far as future incidents like this, there was no court ruling against this behavior so it will likely occur again.
I am surprised they allowed the amount of her settlement to be made public, most of the time the settlement and amount is kept from the public.
This is rape.
Stay outta da’ bushes!