Originally Posted by
RTW1
I see stories of people caught with large amounts of cash fairly often.... yes, it's probably a very, very small percentage of those traveling. But people need to be searched to catch them anyway, even if it's not common.
And for the race card.... first it's a flight to Korea, so a fair bet some of those traveling will be Asian :-). And second... chances are probably higher if a profile is used than do random searches. Whatever you might think, it's a job and I think those doing it know more than the average poster here. It's not the TSA we are talking about here....
I travel fairly often, and get stopped sometimes (single white guy from AMS) in specific countries. For other countries they target others (for instance arriving in AMS the Asian middle age ladies with 3 suitcases will get stopped because they know/assume they will be carrying all kinds of groceries that are prohibited). Racial profiling.... probably it's one factor they use, there are others.
And why would it be a problem anyway when that gets results? It's not like you are harassed randomly. You are at a border crossing where everybody is subject to being searched.
And what's the solution here, Asian couples with a baby should be excluded from searches? Or only random (decided by whom) should be allowed?
When CBP is running a dragnet for underdeclared/undeclared cash being transported by Asian-Americans headed to Asia, eventually the dragnet will catch some ignorant Asian-Americans. That racist profiling catches some violators of law is to be expected, but is catching a few violators a good justification for racist activity (whether or not perpetrated by those operating under color of authority)? If so, then would you support the KKK whose lynchings and other attacks may have included punishing some law violators?
Even a broken clock may be right twice a day in displaying the right time. Much the same goes for racist profiling at airports, which more rarely displays the right crime/violation than it displays racist profiling as a wild goose chase that is more often wrong than right in finding what it is supposed to find.