Border searches under scrutiny.
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British Government Opposes Irish Border Checkpoints
(TFC) – The Brexit camp is forced to deal with the realities of their campaigning. The government’s most recent position paper opposes any form of physical infrastructure between Northern Ireland, which is currently under British rule, and the Republic of…
Cuban Communists Seize “Counter-Revolutionary” Literature at Customs
Castro Regime’s “Openness” to the World Includes Censuring Non-Communist Ideas
Customs authorities have reportedly doubled efforts to fight drug trafficking and the smuggling of “counterrevolutionary” literature to the island.
Through May, customs agents captured six kilograms of cocaine, seven kilograms of marijuana and stopped a total of 41 attempts to smuggle narcotics. Thirty-one of these were for personal use and 10 looked to be for traffic.
The border agency also said it neutralized over 800 infractions in security lines, mentioning among the infractions the entry to the country of “literature with subversive content directed to counterrevolution”.
