There is no required number. Most likely, the Port Director or an Assistant Port Director made a port policy requiring a certain number of screenings.
they were given stacks of forms, called IO25s
No such form exists. The form is a CBP Form 6059b "US Customs Declaration". The information from this form is then entered into TECS under the IO25 function.
Since Sept. 11, 2001, inspectors at the 324 U.S. ports of entry have been tasked with identifying and stopping foreign criminals, smugglers and terrorists among the 1.1 million visitors to the U.S. each year.
In reality, we've been tasked with this since around 1900 and each year we screen about 500 million visitors.
CBP's standard of clearing each foreign flight within one hour means arriving passengers are often screened within a minute or less.
No such standard exists.
The whistleblowers also complained that very few airline crew members were subjected to secondary searches since they tended to pass through the custom check as a group.
Again, this is most likely a port policy and is contrary to regulations. At my port, crew members are screened separately and subject to the same inspections as the passengers.
One of the many problems with CBP is “Port Policy”. Headquarters will institute regulations, and then fails to enforce it, leaving each port to decide how and when to enforce that regulation or law.
Thanks, MI. I was hoping you’d give your opinion.
Did you happen to just hear Ted Nugent on the Terry Anderson show? It was great. Nugent contacted Terry when he heard him. Man is he ever against this Senate bill!
http://www2.krla870.com/listen/
http://www.theterryandersonshow.com/
MI, thanks for the added info. I’m going to email the ‘journalist’ tonight and ask a simple question - if you can’t get the factual stuff right, why should we listen to anything else you have to say?