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Woman charges she was sexually violated in Logan searches
By adamg on Mon, 08/02/2021 - 8:34pm
A woman who says she was forced to undergo a body cavity search each time after she and her daughter returned to Logan from trips to the Dominican Republic is now suing Customs and Border Patrol.
In the suit, filed today in US District Court in Boston, Neisa Ortega and her daughter over searches and exams that went on for hours after four separate trips in 2019 and 2020. Ortega is a permanent resident; her daughter is a US citizen.
The individual CBP officers who searched and seized Ms. Ortega and N.Z. had no legal basis for their behavior. Moreover, the fact that CBP’s April 2019 searches of Ms. Ortega revealed no evidence of drugs or other contraband only reinforced that they had no reasonable suspicion for
any of the subsequent searches. Further, the CBP officers who detained and searched Ms. Ortega failed to follow CBP’s own internal guidance and instructions on searches and seizures. In particular, CBP officers are prohibited from performing body cavity searches, including vaginal cavity searches. Vaginal cavity searches may only be conducted by medical practitioners at a medical facility and only in the most exceptional of circumstances.Ms. Ortega and N.Z. fear that every time they travel, they will be forced into a small room and abused by CBP officers who rely on scant to no information to justify their illegal behavior.
They are seeking an end to the practice and damages.
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Comments
Disgusting
Disgusting
Looks like daughter was a child?
The use of initials for the daughter suggests that she may have been a minor at the time of the searches, in which case this is especially disturbing.
Yes
The daughter was 14 and, according to the suit, was separated from her mother for hours at a time.
Horrifying
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Wait, CPB agents abused their power?!
I hope they go down hard for this. And I hope the victims will find peace from this.
(Edited)
Criminal charges?
If this is true, the officers and their managers who approved the practice should go to jail for sexual assault.
I’m sure she was not the only victim.
Really gross, but if you're
Really gross, but if you're travelling very frequently it's wise to the the Pre-Check. It's ~$50 for 5 years and you don't get molested.
Welcome to America and the New Normal.
You have no clue, do you?
You have no clue, do you?
So...
...basic human rights are reserved for those who can pay for them?
You just won...
The prize for the most absurd and uninformed post of 2021 and 2022.
I've never paid the TSA any money
and I've still never had my asshole checked by them at the airport.
Attention federal government
I'm not afraid enough to die at the hands of some lady and her daughter from the DR for you to employ people to grope them.
End this federal jobs program for unemployable sociopaths. Just give them the damn checks like we did during COVID, and tell them to stay away from others. Stories like this are a terrific argument in favor of UBI.
The fact that the same thing
The fact that the same thing happened multiple times with the same woman and thirteen different CBP agents suggests something else going on. What's going on?
The complaint also contains one unexpectedly humorous claim:
Hey what she does in her own home is her business...
What it suggests to me
What it suggests to me is that the internal culture at CBP supports systematic harassment of someone whom they decide they don’t like. For example, if someone once has the temerity to have brown skin and to complain about their treatment, then some thin-skinned bully enters some code in some database that indicates that this person is a troublemaker who should be taught a lesson.
Rape enabler
It does not matter what they were suspicious of THEIR OWN POLICY SAYS DO NOT RAPE FEEL UP CAVITY SEARCH OR DO ANY OF THE FUCKING BULLSHIT THEY REPEATEDLY DID TO THIS WOMAN AND HER CHILD.
Repeat: THESE FUCKHEADS CAVITY SEARCHED A CHILD. THAT IS WHAT WAS GOING ON.
Go play with your own suspicious orifices, you pathetic little boot licking rape enabler and excuse maker for the fascist police state.
There is no indication that
There is no indication that the child was cavity searched.
It doesn't matter
Again IT DOES NOT MATTER. NOBODY should have been touched according to their own policies.
Again STOP ENABLING RAPE.
Swirly
You did say something that as best I can tell from the complaint is factually incorrect. I see no mention of the child being searched in the same indefensible manner that her mother clearly was.
Otherwise, I'm inclined to agree with what you are saying.
Really?
That's your takeaway, huh?
That, combined with your silence at Refugee's attempt to cast suspicion on the victims, is telling.