I'm sorry and I don't mean to "high-jack" the thread since this slightly off topic but is it true that this can happen to someone at a border? I know this doesn't relate to TSA but it is absolutely nauseating.

I think what might be worse is the cavalier reply from "Irene Prince". What if that were her monther or daughter? I would hope that they had DAMN good reasonable suspicion to do that to someone.

"Gwendolyn Richards was returning from Jamaica when Customs officials took her to a hospital in handcuffs.

"I was on the table with my legs in the stirrups, and the doctor checked me out and she basically told me that I was clean," she said.

Customs officials acknowledge that the searches were conducted but deny that race has anything to do with who they choose to search.

"We do have the legal right to do what we do," said Irene Prince of the Customs Service. "The good guys sometimes get caught up with the bad guys. And I wish that people would understand that we're here trying to do a job."