cavity search for non-existent drugs

[Robert]

Good example of where you end up when you proscribe certain substances and another example of why I despise current drugs legislation worldwide:

According to the complaint, after presenting her identity documents, an unidentified CBP agent accused Cervantes of possessing illegal drugs, which she denied. She was ordered to proceed to a detention room, where she was handcuffed to a chair. There, she was sniffed by a dog (in violation of CBP policy) and was taken to another room where she was ordered to squat so that female officers could visually inspect her.

Unsatisfied that they had not found the drugs, the agents escalated their search. CBP Agent Shameka Leggett then filled out an Immigration Health Services’ form, known as a Treatment Authorization Request (TAR), describing Cervantes as being "diagnosed" as an apparent "potential internal carrier of foreign substance." The agent recommended that she be X-rayed at a hospital.

Cervantes was then transported in custody from the border to Holy Cross Hospital.

The complaint goes on to describe how Dr. Martinez "forcefully and digitally probed her vagina and anus."

The Arizona Capitol Times quoted Marchetti as saying that her parents were also served with a $575 hospital bill.

Laws which were created by ignorant arseholes, continuously justified by equally ignorant arseholes and here being 'enforced' by seemingly even more ignorant arseholes.

Poor girl will probably be traumatised for the rest of her life.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Poor girl will probably be traumatised for the rest of her life.

When I read the name I was expecting the story to take a Don Quixote slant with tilting at windmills and such ...

Yes, laws are a cudgel and their purpose of many of them is to beat up on the little people to remind them who's boss. The kings and queens can carry and use whatever they want and never will their cavities even be contemplated. But what makes them effective at this instrument of continual humiliation is the army of thugs that find self worth in exercising their powers and proving to themselves that they are superior to the "criminals". Thus anyone you abuse you are compelled to find the evidence to justify it - which leads to the mindset we saw with the "weapons of mass destruction" whereby absence of evidence is just evidence of how good your quarry is at hiding stuff.