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High-Tech Gadgets Can Pose Problems At Mexican Border
TechnologyResource writes "Going across the border will be a more 'interesting' experience since Customs and Border Protection will now be checking laptops, digital cameras, cell phones and any other electronics on your person or in your vehicle. It's not a new authority, according to Angelica De Cima, Office of Public Affairs Liaison 'They've always had the right to inspect your person, vehicle, baggage, anything on you. Nothing has changed from before,' De Cima said."
As long as this keeps Mexicans out of America, I'm all for it.
hope you aren't buying into the lie that "90% of guns in mexico are coming from the u.s." That bullshit has been spewed by the back-pedaling liar Barack Obama and the BATF. The actual truth behind that distorted statistic is that most guns in mexico are from non-u.s. sources that can't be traced (Russia, South America, etc). A fraction of those could be traced, less than 20%, and 90% of those came from the U.S.
The checkups at the airport are not the main issue. As you say, when you are coming in a flight from the US or Europe, usually they are not very strict when it comes to checkups (flights coming from Colombia or Central America have a little more scrutiny)
The real difference is going to be when you cross the border driving. There's been waaay too many documented cases of people buying guns (and I mean big guns, like assault rifles) legally in the US with their God-given 2nd ammendment right and smuggling them to the drug cartels here.
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/aug/10/nation/na-guns10
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/28/AR2007102801654.html
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/03/26/kennedy.townsend.guns/index.html
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