Posted on 12/21/2016 7:04:25 AM PST by Ragnar54
Hey, these guys were just taking some Christmas money home to buy presents for their family. Completely innocent.
Carrying 3 million in cash in the trunk of a car when crossing a border. There's a pretty fair presumption that some illegal activity is involved here.
Smuggling might be tough to prove, even though it’s obvious. They weren’t actually at the border crossing, so proving intent to leave the country might be difficult unless their electronics had some evidence.
yep. take the money and send them on their way.
What are you, one of those limited-government types?! /s
Now THAT’s a Toll Road!
Ha Ha! Someone in Mexico is not having “Happy Holidays” this year. Merry Christmas to the guys who check the cars at the border!
Under my plan..80% of that would go to the arresting agency.
Wanna see law enforcement agencies start really getting after them?
If illegals are caught at a place of work, the contractor pays a fine of around 6 grand for each illegal caught. The arresting agency keeps 80% of the fines and the contractor also gets to pay for the deportation of the illegals-legal fees and all.
Fairly sure you are not allowed to leave the U.S. with more than $10,000 in cash. So if you are taking $10,000 in cash outside the country, make sure you don’t have any change in your wallet or the whole lot could be confiscated.
HOORAY U.S. Border Patrol
Whew!
I thought this thread might actually proceed without the typical liberatarian “Give the money back” reply.
Asset forfeiture is always wrong. Right? So what if it’s two Mexicans with 3 million in cash that they can’t (won’t) explain? Give it back to them and tell them to drive safe now, ya here?
Obama makes them give it back, fires them, then goes on apology/golf tour to central America.
Bingo.
Wanna see law enforcement agencies start really getting after them?
We've been there, done that, and seen that too many people had assets seized while never being charged with any crime.
Let's seize all assets/property for which legal ownership can't be positively documented - starting with YOUR stuff. Got the receipt for that plasma big-screen? Kiss it goodbye.
Too much strawman in your argument.
Seize my big screen? Yeah, I’ll protest and contest that.
Unlike the Mexicans who will not say a single solitary word in their defense.
Have they - by this asset forfeiture - been denied their Constitutional Rights? Not even if they were legal US citizens.
Have then been denied due process? Assumed guilty before a trial? Not hardly.
Court have rules for decades that these VOLUNTARY asset forfeiture actions are legal.
And you got a problem with this? Not me.
Unlike the Mexicans who will not say a single solitary word in their defense.
As is their Fifth Amendment right.
Court have rules for decades that these VOLUNTARY asset forfeiture actions are legal.
Court have rules for decades that abortion is Constitutionally protected.
Right they should have used Money Orders.
Nov 2016?
First off BUB. You dont carry 3 mill in cash without an armored car..or by armored currier.
Second, you dont take 3 mill out of the country without the proper documents for doing so.
Third, they might like to explian all of the above to the proper judge and jury.
Nice try though Newb.
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