3 ms·
Two things here. 1) These are not the police. Police are trained law enforcement officers. These are customs and immigration employees. They get training, b
by reeses 13y ago
Two things here.
1) These are not the police. Police are trained law enforcement officers. These are customs and immigration employees. They get training, but it's more important that they can get a security clearance.
2) Can you think of a reason for having a file of white noise that you could explain to this person that they would understand and believe?
You really don't have many rights outside immigration/customs. "Probable cause" is "he acted weird." Cars have been destructively disassembled for less.
- rdouble 13y agoI don't know about the UK, but the average customs and immigration employee in the USA does not have a security clearance.
- reeses 13y agoYou may be confounding ICE, CIS, and CBP, which is completely understandable (never mind EOIR, which is over in the DOJ and muddying the waters even more). The majority of CBP are federal "law enforcement" and are required to obtain clearance in addition to the suitability investigation(which is the equivalent of a lifestyle + polygraph background check for s/ts clearance). If they look at a computer based on information provided by a person entering the country, they have to have clearance. Uncleared or precleared people will often hang out over the shoulder of someone with clearance, so it's not really that "secure", but it ensures that queries are handled by cleared personnel.