Woman Sues Border Patrol: She Was Held And Subjected to Full Cavity Searches Over 6-Hour Period - Then Billed $5,000

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EL PASO, Texas (CN) - A U.S. citizen's vagina and anus were left raw from a warrantless six-hour search by Customs and Border Protection agents and doctors, who looked into her with a speculum, then billed her $5,000 for the exam, the woman claims in court.

Jane Doe sued four agents, El Paso County Hospital District, its board of directors, the University Medical Center of El Paso and two of its doctors, in Federal Court...

Two Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents took her to a private room, she says, where they examined her anus and vagina with a flashlight.

"Doe was understandably humiliated and she began crying," she says in the complaint. The agents did not find any drugs or contraband inside her, Doe says, but they took her in handcuffs to the University Medical Center of El Paso for more examination.

She claims that the agents, with two doctors, then subjected her to six hours of demeaning searches "without obtaining consent."

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