Originally Posted by
Blogndog
Wow -- this beggars belief. The CBP internally acknowledges that there is a right to silence, but they have policies that explicitly forbid their agents from informing travellers of this right, because it might disuade them from making a self-incriminating statement. Disgusting.
Law enforcement in general never tells a person their rights until an arrest is made. They start out trying to chat you up in order to develop a case.
They can even lie to you and that is ok.