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Originally Posted by fredr123
I might have some paper files in my luggage that are confidential too. I could also just buy drugs in the United States once I got there. No sense searching my luggage for drugs.
I do agree that only the idiots get caught though.
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As far as I know, its not legal for the guards to photocopy the entire contents of your briefcase when you cross the border... just in case. If its on your laptop, at least in the states, its perfectly fine and legal for them to make a copy of anything and everything on your drive.
Regarding smuggling: There's only one way to move drugs into the country - physically getting them across the border. Carrying them, shipping them, whatever... something is physically coming into the country. I'll concede your point kinda holds up for the college kid taking a small baggie of weed on spring break but I was thinking more of the drug trafficker.
Also, you have searches going on to ensure a bomb isn't smuggled onto an airplane or the like. No matter how hard you try, you're not going to hijack an airplane with a ripped copy of Pirates of the Caribbean.