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Not a good way to cross the boarder

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LoKyBuckeye

LoKyBuckeye

I give up. This board is too hard to understand.
A U.S. Customs Primary Inspector at a border crossing asked the driver of this Suburban for vehicle registration. Suddenly, a hand came out of the glove compartment, producing the requested document, which the driver showed the inspector.Since the driver did not appear to be a member of the Addams Family, the inspector became suspicious, thus leading to a full search.Just think, if alien smugglers can put a 135-lb. body behind the dashboard, imagine what they could do with dope.
Tuesday, July 31, 2001

Origins: Although the "Addams Family"-like scenario described in the text accompanying these photos was probably just someone's humorous embellishment, we couldn't dismiss the pictures themselves as a joke. Plenty of inventive (and desperate) people have come up with a number of imaginative schemes for sneaking themselves and others across national borders (a recent news story dealt with Illegal immigrants from India and Pakistan being smuggled from mainland China to Hong Kong inside suitcases), and this one wasn't so far-fetched to be completely unbelievable. The "passenger" might be quite cramped and uncomfortable and the automobile difficult to maneuver after the modifications, but the ruse wouldn't have to be maintained for long -- the car could be loaded just out of sight of border agents, driven the short distance to the crossing, and unloaded just across the other side.

Sure enough, a photograph of this event was included in a short "illegal aliens caught in desperate attempts to cross U.S. border" article appearing in the September 2001 issue of U.S. Customs Today (a publication of the United States Customs Service), which noted:

The woman peering out from the automobile dashboard of another vehicle (above) tried a similar "spaced-out" ploy - she was also discovered before the car could get across the U.S.-Mexico border, cramped, but none the worse for wear.
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I doubt anything "the left" is screaming about has any influence on your average penniless immigrant.... that sort of quibbling isn't a luxury those in third world squalor can afford...

I'm sure those who would risk their lives for a better life in America are getting to the Rio Grande or blowing up their raft in Cuba saying to themselves... "Boy, that Dubya guy is holding some dudes down in gitmo without habeous corpus... ahh fuck it, I'm going back to my dirt hut and eat some sand for dinner."
 
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