DHS
GOVERNMENT
THUGS!
Forfeiture
programs is to enrich those performing the forfeitures!
69% of DHS
agency airport currency seizure cases were not accompanied by an arrest!
[Without due process
DHS is a criminal organization]
from the taking-taxpayers'-dimes-on-the-taxpayers'-dime dept
In a little over 15 years, DHS agencies interacted with millions of travelers passing through our nation's airports… and relieved them of over $2 billion in cash. (And that's just agencies like the CBP and ICE. The DEA also lifts cash from airline passengers -- something it loves doing so much it hires TSA agents to look for money, rather than stuff that could threaten transportation security.) Federal law requires travelers to declare any currency over $10,000 when traveling into or out of the country. It's pretty easy to get this done when traveling into the US, as arriving visitors will be required to go through Customs and declare anything they're bringing into the country, including cash. Outbound travelers may not realize this applies to them and since they're not required to pass through Customs on the way out, they may have no idea they're violating the law. That's an opportunity DHS agencies are more than happy to capitalize on. Half of all seizures between 2000-2016 were for violating this reporting requirement.
In fact, serious criminal activity is something no one seizing money seems very concerned about.
Asset forfeiture isn't about dismantling criminal
empires. It's about taking cash from people who
have limited means to fight back.
If the government has all your cash, it's pretty tough to hire a lawyer and fight an uphill battle against a system that dispenses with the property's former owner completely to engage in litigation against the cash itself.
Taking money from people has always been easier than fighting crime. That much has been obvious for years. The IRS said the quiet part out loud by accident. This report says everything the government isn't willing to admit to the public, much less itself: the point of forfeiture programs is to enrich those performing the forfeitures. That's it. That's the entire thing. Any reductions in criminal activity are purely coincidental.
DYI: First of all it is none of the governments business what I do with the
money that I’m carrying. Carrying cash
should not be a crime as many of these stops by the cops have seized less than
the $10,000 dollar threshold all based on the flimsy of charges. Most of the time no one is even arrested and
yet their personal property has been taken (cash).
For those who believe this program has merit – [I don’t] – the threshold
of $10,000 is way too small. This
program was designed to go after major
criminals who use cash for their illegal operations. Ten thousand is ridiculously too low where
all you are doing is sweeping up a vast majority of innocent individuals who
are simply unaware of this law that has bent to favor police agencies bottom
line. What should the threshold
be? At least starting at 5 million
dollars plus. Of course again my opinion
is that the whole damn program needs to be scraped as you can see it has
morphed into a program primarily against the poor and lower levels of the
middle class.
Plus and we shouldn’t dance around the obvious that with this much cash being
scooped up many of the officers will succumb to taking some of the money for
themselves thus further corrupting our police forces.
DYI
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