U.S. Immigration Cavity Search Results in Medical Emergency
February 6th, 2007Welcome to the United States. Dr. Mengele will see you now.
Via: Register:
US immigration officials insisted the sufferer of an anal infection remove a small piece of medical thread which was being used by doctors to treat the condition. The man required treatment under general anaesthetic as a result.
The man had an anal fistula, which is a painful channel that can develop deep into the anus, caused by infection or digestive conditions such as Crohn’s disease. More details, if absolutely necessary, from NHS Direct here.
Arriving on holiday in New York in August last year, the unnamed 48-year-old was interrogated and searched by immigration officers, according to a letter appearing in medical journal The Lancet. The rectal examination discovered a device called a seton, which doctors in the UK had inserted into the fistula to help control long-term infection.
The seton was made of a blue braided medical suture material knotted and passed into the hole where the fistula surfaced. After one baffled immigration officer pulled “very hard” on the seton, the patient was given the choice by the baffled immigration officers of either getting on the next plane home, or submitting himself to a procedure to have it removed.
Happily, as The Lancet’s correspondent notes, the curious immigration officer yanking the seton did not damage “the anal sphincter muscles encircled by it”.
The seton was duly removed by an airport doctor, who claimed to have no idea what it was. The man now requires treatment under general anaesthetic to have a replacement inserted.
The letter writer concludes by advising seton patients to carry a letter from their doctor when travelling “to the USA or any other country where they are likely to be searched in this manner”.
So you are anally abused now when entering the United States? Is this what my country has become?
I’m speechless
“Likely to be searched in this manner”? WTF????
It sounds like US Customs Security procedures were literally yanked out of someone’s @ss!
You think thats bad? Wait ’till you try to LEAVE the U.S. of A.
I wonder what other factors prompted such a search in the first place? Is entering the country like playing Russian roulette with your asshole? Every tenth flying customer is a ‘winner’? Or was/is there any REASON to this. The folks working at these agencies are not well paid or educated, but common sense doesn’t seem to be well developed either. Wonder what the salary is for the guy who has to stand around ass probing all day? (Answer: probably minimum wage, but the sick bastard enjoys his work)
Can anyone think of any other legal non medical COMMERCIAL transaction you willingly enter into that automatically places one’s rectum at risk like this?
Enjoy.
I thought ‘anal butt probing’ was the exclusive purvey of cosmic space aliens.
In the movie “Three Kings” one of the troopers says during a search of Iraqi prisoners: “I didn’t join the Army to be pulling paper out of people’s asses.” Otherwise, I guess, he would have joined the INS.
Sue the bastards. Sue the government. This is a disgusting outrage.