{"id":10091,"date":"2013-12-27T07:22:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T07:22:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T07:22:05","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10091","title":{"rendered":"MintPressNews: A U.S. citizen has accused Customs and Border Patrol officers of sexual assault after she endured a six-hour anal and vaginal cavity search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MintPressNews:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/civil-rights-groups-push-change-legality-border-body-cavity-drug-searches\/175672\/\"> A U.S. citizen has accused Customs and Border Patrol officers of sexual assault after she endured a six-hour anal and vaginal cavity search<\/a> by Katie Rucke:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Are U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers violating Americans\u2019 Fourth Amendment rights as part of a last ditch effort to win a battle in the failed war on drugs?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a question that many civil-and immigration-rights activists have begun to ask after a citizen came forward saying she was forced to have a six-hour anal and vaginal cavity search by CBP officers who were convinced she was smuggling drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border even though she wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>The 54-year-old woman \u2014 whose name has not been released since she identifies as a victim of sexual assault \u2014 filed a lawsuit with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union last week against the agents and doctors who searched her genitals without her consent and charged her more than $5,000 for the exams.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10091\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}