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Feds: Your iPad Won't Get You Across the Border

Jan 4, 2012 4:10 PM CST

Feds: Your iPad Won't Get You Across the Border

... Despite claims of Canadian driver

(Newser) - Note to US-Canadian travelers: Bring the passport, skip the iPad. A Canadian man who forgot his actual passport says he showed a scanned copy of it to a border agent on his iPad and was allowed entry. Not so, a US Customs spokeswoman tells CTV . She says Montreal resident Martin...

Canadian Uses
iPad Scan to
Cross Into US

Jan 3, 2012 6:42 PM CST

Canadian Uses iPad Scan to Cross Into US

He forgot his passport but remembered his scanned copy

(Newser) - In what looks to be a first, a Canadian traveler got across the US border via iPad. It wasn't intentional: Montreal resident Martin Reisch realized he forgot his passport en route but remembered he had a scanned copy on his Apple gadget, reports the Canadian Press . He handed over...

Porsche Stolen in 1988 Seized at Port

Oct 28, 2011 5:57 PM CDT

Porsche Stolen in 1988 Seized at Port

Customs agents in Los Angeles find 930 Turbo worth $70,000

(Newser) - US Customs agents in Los Angeles cracked a 23-year-old case when they seized a Porsche 930 Turbo on its way to being shipped to the Netherlands. The sports car had been reported stolen—in 1988. The 1976 red Porsche eluded authorities for more than two decades, reports the Los Angeles ...

Cops: Airport Smuggler Hid
Cocaine in ... Clam Shells

Sep 9, 2011 4:42 PM CDT

Cops: Airport Smuggler Hid Cocaine in ... Clam Shells

Customs officials call case one of the oddest they've seen

(Newser) - Finding a pearl inside a clam is rare, but finding a bag of cocaine is rarer. Just ask Dulles International Airport customs officials who arrested a Central American man trying to enter the US with 15 bags of cocaine stashed in shells that had been opened, stuffed, and glued back...

Mexico Accidentally
Invades Texas

Mexico Accidentally Invades Texas

Dozens of troops stray over border bridge

(Newser) - What may have been the largest incursion by foreign troops onto US soil since the Japanese invasion of Alaska's Aleutian Islands occurred in Texas this week. Four Humvees carrying a total of 33 Mexican soldiers accidentally strayed into US territory, crossing the boundary line on a bridge across the...

Cartels Bribe
US Border Agents
With Cash, Sex

says official

Jun 10, 2011 8:20 AM CDT

Cartels Bribe US Border Agents With Cash, Sex

127 border workers nabbed for corruption since 2004

(Newser) - Dangling offers of money and sexual favors, Mexican drug cartels have bribed US border officials to allow illegal immigrants through checkpoints, shield traffickers, or provide secret information, a top official testified before a Senate subcommittee. The Zetas drug cartel in particular has been “involved increasingly in systematic corruption,”...

New Passport Rules
Burden Businesses
on US Borders

Aug 14, 2009 5:28 PM CDT

New Passport Rules Burden Businesses on US Borders

Fewer traveling into US

(Newser) - Businesses on the US side of the Canadian border say they're struggling now that travelers must show a passport to get into the country. In June, when the new law went into effect, the 11 busiest border bridges saw 23% less traffic than last year, the Wall Street Journal reports....

Iris Cards Let Travelers Skip Customs

Apr 24, 2009 8:56 AM CDT

Iris Cards Let Travelers Skip Customs

US signs deal with Holland, and more are on the way

(Newser) - A new digital card will allow Americans to skip customs lines at a foreign airport for the first time, reports USA Today. In a deal between Homeland Security officials and the Netherlands, US travelers approved for the ID card will be able to speed through Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, while...

Suit Claims In-Flight Booze Led to Domestic Violence

Dec 17, 2008 2:04 PM CST

Suit Claims In-Flight Booze Led to Domestic Violence

Courts must decide if United jet constituted a bar

(Newser) - A couple has sued United Airlines for deliberately serving the husband too much wine on a 2006 international flight, triggering a physical fight with his wife upon landing. The case rides on whether US courts find United beholden to the same liabilities as bars, and if they can preside over...

Feds Compile Database on Border-Crossing US Citizens

Aug 20, 2008 4:22 AM CDT

Feds Compile Database on Border-Crossing US Citizens

Agents will track crossings and store info for 15 years

(Newser) - The federal government has begun tracking the border crossings of US citizens and building a huge database with the information, the Washington Post reports. The data collection, made possible by machine-readable documents, has alarmed privacy groups. The government plans to keep the information for 15 years and share it with...

Border Agents Have Right to Seize Any Traveler's Laptop

Aug 1, 2008 6:54 AM CDT

Border Agents Have Right to Seize Any Traveler's Laptop

Homeland Security 'update' outlines sweeping powers

(Newser) - US border agents can seize laptop computers or other electronc devices from any traveler entering the country and keep them indefinitely, even without suspicion of wrongdoing, the Washington Post reports. A policy update released by Homeland Security, dated July 16, says agents can keep any information-storing device they please and...

Visitor Fingerprinting Expanded

Mar 27, 2008 8:28 PM CDT

Visitor Fingerprinting Expanded

Homeland Security hopes scans of all 10 digits will improve tracking, monitoring

(Newser) - Visitors to the US entering through New York's John F. Kennedy airport will have all 10 fingers scanned under a new program of the Department of Homeland Security, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Officials hope the program, called US-VISIT, will allow customs—which currently collects just two prints from non-citizen...