When I worked with BP we would tell people crossing they had to declare any smuggled people and pay taxes on them. Worked most of the time.
Edit:/s Although I'm sure it's worked once.
Extreme stress does weird things to people, border control see people crossing every single day they see how most people react when they have nothing to hide.
Direct confrontation rarely works so doing it in an indirect way so they essentially tell on themselves works way more.
It was the only thing they could directly link Al Capone to. He ordered his subordinates to do all of his dirty work. Before RICO lawsuits were invented, organized crime bosses were nearly untouchable. Law enforcement had to look for any unrelated crime they could directly tie bosses to, and then threw the book at them to keep them in jail.
There are white vertical rectangles, facing one another, when you cross the border by vehicle. Receiver and transmitter.
They don't tell you it's an X-ray scanner but it is, because fuck you.
They bombard you with X-rays, they know it's not healthy, but again, fuck you. That's how they find these kind of things.
Edit1: no idea why I'm getting downvoted, like at all. It is a statement of fact, and the "fuck you" is not personal to the reader, it's the sentiment from government to people crossing the border (legals illegals and citizens alike).
Edit2: there's a troll down there arguing about TSA scans being more harmful. No one was discussing or comparing TSA scans versus vehicle inspection scans. At all. I made the mistake of feeding the troll, don't do that people. Just ignore him.
I've seen those x-ray pictures. They are pretty revealing and it's obvious if you're hiding someone. Makes me wonder, do smugglers NOT know about it? What's the point of even trying to "hide" someone in that compartment when it's obviously going to be found? Are they counting on the x-ray machine not working? What's the thought process here? Please someone explain the mind of a smuggler for me.
i could be wrong but i assume they are taking that chance of the vehicle not getting scanned cuz not every vehicle gets scanned. What usually gives it away is the way the driver/people in the vehicle act and the BP probably know the signs on how people act that gives a dead giveaway that something is up
Dude, I'm not talking about TSA scan. I mean just natural radiation from flying which is like way higher than vehicle scan. Learn to understand, instead of deleting your messages
You receive Athe same X-ray frequency by standing outside in the day & night. It is literally the exact same electro magnetic frequency.
The only difference is it's focused x-ray or all other types of EMF. So if you're mad about being scanned. Then might as well be mad about standing outside.
Comparing a 2 sec x-ray to your entire life walking around outside is miniscule. We are exposed to 50 mSv per year, that's without plane flights and all the other tech. It's only radiation, the same as the natural decay of atoms. Your own body puts off radiation.
We have evolved to handle it daily. I recommend taking some time to understand radiation before unrealistically fearing it.
I'm mean obviously.. don't go stand in front of it just because. Just like don't stare at the sun.
I pretty much do understand radiation. If you’re shooting thru metal, you need more energy than you use to pass thru bone and flesh. Do they certify the dose they irradiate across the check point? That’s a concern to me.
Edit2: there's a troll down there arguing about TSA scans being more harmful. No one was discussing or comparing TSA scans versus vehicle inspection scans. At all. I made the mistake of feeding the troll, don't do that people. Just ignore him.
They were just arguing against this point
They bombard you with X-rays, they know it's not healthy, but again, fuck you. That's how they find these kind of things.
Saying that being on a flight, not even a TSA scan, exposes you to about 10x the radiation this scan would. Which is still considered a pretty negligible amount
Exactly. People really need to understand what they are upset about before assuming an invisible death ray was pointed at them. Cause the sun isn't going anywhere.
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u/Aclysmic 26d ago
Genuinely always wonder how they end up finding them