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Border Patrol seizes $3M from two cars heading to Mexico
Foxnews.com ^ | 12/21/2016

Posted on 12/21/2016 7:04:25 AM PST by Ragnar54

The U.S. Border Patrol says over $3 million has been seized after it was found on Tuesday inside two cars in Escondido, California.

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The cash was being smuggled from the U.S. into Mexico.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; assetforfeiture; civilassetforfeiture; forfeiture; illegal; invasion; votefraud
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To: Ragnar54

Hey, these guys were just taking some Christmas money home to buy presents for their family. Completely innocent.


21 posted on 12/21/2016 7:40:16 AM PST by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a slasher, and find one.... what's your plan?)
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To: ibheath
Carrying cash should not be illegal, and the government should not be able to profit from it.

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.

22 posted on 12/21/2016 7:42:34 AM PST by Blennos ( As)
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To: Ragnar54

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.


23 posted on 12/21/2016 7:44:59 AM PST by Not A Snowbird (SandyInPeoria just doesn't sound right... yet here I am.)
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To: bgill

yep. take the money and send them on their way.


24 posted on 12/21/2016 7:58:11 AM PST by Palio di Siena
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To: ibheath
Carrying cash should not be illegal, and the government should not be able to profit from it.

What are you, one of those limited-government types?! /s

25 posted on 12/21/2016 8:03:25 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Ragnar54

Now THAT’s a Toll Road!


26 posted on 12/21/2016 8:06:23 AM PST by Mikey_1962 ("Good people do not need laws, bad people will find a way around them" Plato)
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To: Blennos

Ha Ha! Someone in Mexico is not having “Happy Holidays” this year. Merry Christmas to the guys who check the cars at the border!


27 posted on 12/21/2016 8:10:17 AM PST by kiltie65
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To: Ragnar54

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.


28 posted on 12/21/2016 8:11:10 AM PST by crz
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To: ibheath

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.


29 posted on 12/21/2016 8:12:23 AM PST by kiltie65
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To: Ragnar54

HOORAY U.S. Border Patrol


30 posted on 12/21/2016 8:30:29 AM PST by PGalt (CONGRATULATIONS Donald J. Trump)
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To: ibheath

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?


31 posted on 12/21/2016 8:35:52 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Ragnar54
Border Patrol seizes $3M from two cars heading to Mexico

Obama makes them give it back, fires them, then goes on apology/golf tour to central America.

32 posted on 12/21/2016 8:38:35 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.)
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To: Red Badger

Bingo.


33 posted on 12/21/2016 9:29:09 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted. It belongs to the brave. - - Ronaldus Magnus Reagan)
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To: crz
Under my plan..80% of that would go to the arresting agency.

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.

34 posted on 12/21/2016 10:38:48 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Responsibility2nd
So what if it’s two Mexicans with 3 million in cash that they can’t (won’t) explain?

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.

35 posted on 12/21/2016 10:44:37 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: NobleFree

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.


36 posted on 12/21/2016 10:57:57 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd
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.

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.

37 posted on 12/21/2016 11:03:56 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: ibheath
Carrying cash should not be illegal, and the government should not be able to profit from it.

Right they should have used Money Orders.

38 posted on 12/21/2016 11:23:53 AM PST by itsahoot (Three words I don't want to hear, Comprehensive Immigration Reform.)
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To: NobleFree

Nov 2016?


39 posted on 12/21/2016 1:14:13 PM PST by crz
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To: NobleFree

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.


40 posted on 12/21/2016 1:21:51 PM PST by crz
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