Originally Posted by
TSAPressSec
Each day, we come across bulk cash at checkpoints nationwide. But when discovered, we do refer these matters directly to law enforcement to investigate. Specifically, either local law enforcement, ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) or CBP. They will then determine what law enforcement action, if any, should be taken.
But if you do that, you're conducting an unconstitutional inquiry that goes beyond the bounds of an administrative search. Why are your clerks doing this? Who instructed them to do it? It isn't as if they have such great enough powers of concentration to look out for cash and explosives at the same time.
What are you going to say to the public if a crafty band of terrorists takes advantage of the fact that your clerks see themselves the same way Barney Fife saw himself and use "bulk cash" to distract your clerks from doing their jobs and use their inattention to sneak a nuclear bomb onto an airplane?