U.S. Department of Justice suspends controversial airport search program - no more stealing peoples money

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

summary: airport employee paid as informant would notify DEA of people who booked last minute tickets.... only on that info, DEA would swoop down to take their cash. Most seemed to be males within a certain age range... 30 to 40.

the airport informant would get a cut of the cash seized.

[malaise]

1. Another day in

living while black.
No words

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

2. there were white and asian victims too... I edited my headline. Victims seem to be mostly male though.

program has been ended nationwide.. this is why we need good journalism.

[malaise]

5. Agree re good journalism

Rec

[duncang]

3. One of the things it doesn't talk about is

When going overseas if you have over $10,000 you must declare it or it can be seized. Not by dea agents but by customs. You have a chance of getting it back a few months later if you can prove you made it legally.

Orin Kerr a lawyer who posts on Bluesky was posting about the same thing as the news article in the last week or so. I think he has been involved in some of the lawsuits.

You can bring over more than $10,000 as long as you declare it. The main thing to always remember is declare money and anything you buy overseas when bringing it back. We never really brought a whole lot back. But we would keep it in one suitcase and in easy to retrieve bags. Just makes it faster at customs.

[marble falls]

4. Another Ronnie Reagan policy finally being dismantled, only took forty years.

[malaise]

6. Will take 50 to tear down neo-liberalism

and this time it will need the masses of the people across the planet.

[marble falls]

7. I'll be in the streets. I'm old, put me up front.

[malaise]

8. Same here

[marble falls]

10. Arm in arm, my friend, arm in arm.

[malaise]

12. Indeed

[rainin]

9. Has anyone seen reports of authorities seizing cash under $10,000? I recall seeing it somewhere, but I can't find it.

I wonder if those seizures were among those that were conveniently undocumented

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

13. small southern cities were doing it... to out of towners driving through town as recently as last 10 years

a few towns were notorious... pull over out of towners, mostly black, brown, Asian.... take their cash under threats that they will lose their kids, etc. Local sheriff, cops.

[GiqueCee]

11. This policy was the equivalent...

... of a leg-hold trap. Totally innocent people caught in a blatantly unconstitutional scheme. But Civil Asset Forfeiture doesn't seem to be completely banned. Local and state police have been shaking people down in highway robberies ever since the Orange Gargoyle took office in 2016 and rescinded Obama's total ban on the practice. The policy's defenders have been wiping their asses with the 4th Amendment ever since. It is LONG past time for that obscenely unconstitutional law to be beaten into a puddle of blood and bone with prejudice.