(US/Canada) Nexus border pass holders caught smuggling

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Source: The Canadian Press

More than 100 travellers have been caught at the U.S. border using their Nexus passes trying to smuggle goods into Canada, documents show.

The Nexus program allows Canadian and American pass holders to pass through special lines when travelling between the two countries by land, air or water.

It's designed to make border patrol more efficient by allowing guards to move those who aren't considered to be a danger to border security through customs more quickly and focus on travellers who have the potential to be high-risk.

But the documents obtained by The Canadian Press show more than a hundred Nexus travellers crossing the border in the second half of 2010 said they had no goods to declare or undervalued the goods they were declaring, only to later be found to be smuggling the items.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/07/18/bc-nexus-pass-smuggling-border.html