Originally Posted by
JamesBigglesworth
You've never dealt with the US, have you? They think they have all sorts of powers outside the US. To give you one example, CBP work with US Coast Guard to regularly detain & arrest drug smugglers in international waters off the coast of Columbia. They then take them to the US to prosecute. It doesn't matter where they were headed or that they were in international waters, the US claims US domestic law applies.
Reminds me very much of the private security at AKL that is responsible for secondary screening of pax on US bound flights seemingly under US legislation because they're not covered under NZ law as the powers only apply to Avsec officers.
This made the news last year when
Murray McCully (our foreign minister at the time) who was subjected to secondary screening despite traveling on a diplomatic passport.