Originally Posted by
chollie
Because in this day and age, with all the signage and barking and the TSA website, there is simply no excuse for someone approaching a checkpoint and not knowing that a wad of cash has to be declared and cleared.
On what grounds? TSA is authorized to search for "weapons and explosives", period, exclusively.
CBP has almost unlimited authority to search and question people who are entering or exiting the country, including about cash, but TSA is expressly prohibited from engaging in any "law enforcement motivated search".
Unless they're claiming that cash is a weapon or explosive…?
