‘Shocked and humiliated’: Lawsuits accuse Customs, Border officers of invasive searches of minors, women

Tameika Lovell filed a lawsuit alleging that a CBP officer at Kennedy Airport in New York used a gloved hand to probe her private parts to look for contraband. Suits filed in other states allege that CBP officers strip-searched teens and transported women from the border or airports to hospitals where pelvic exams and other procedures were forcibly carried out to look for drugs.

David Wexler 

The Center for Public Integrity has issued a report on the lawsuits against the U.S. government foir invasive body searches of women and minors at ports of entry.

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