{"id":22680,"date":"2026-05-29T07:58:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=22680"},"modified":"2026-05-29T08:13:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:13:05","slug":"time-to-end-tsa-license-to-loot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/29\/time-to-end-tsa-license-to-loot\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to End TSA License to Loot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Time to End TSA License to Loot<\/a><\/h1>\n

By James Bovard \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

For more than a decade, TSA agents have plundered passengers at airport security checkpoints on the flimsiest or most shameless pretexts.\u00a0 If you get stopped at an airport security checkpoint with $100 or more<\/a> in cash, TSA agents can fleece you.<\/strong><\/p>\n

More than 10,000 travelers have been stripped of their money by TSA agents since 2014.\u00a0 But the feds almost never bother filing criminal charges against the victims of asset forfeiture.\u00a0 TSA considers itself generous when it \u201cpermits the passenger to continue on to their destination\u201d \u2013 after taking away their money.<\/p>\n

Since 2019, the Institute for Justice, a non-profit constitutional law firm, has been fighting this TSA abuse.\u00a0 Their class action lawsuit was finally argued in federal court in Pittsburgh in February but no decision has been announced.\u00a0\u00a0 The case is spearheaded by Dan Alban, America\u2019s forfeiture knockout champion.<\/strong> “TSA has secret policies that tell its screeners that they must seize travelers’ cash,<\/strong>\u201d says Alban.<\/p>\n

TSA partners with Drug Enforcement Administration, whose forfeiture program unofficial motto is, \u201cYou make it, we\u2019ll take it.\u201d TSA and DEA agents automatically confiscate the cash of any domestic traveler they detect with more than $5,000 \u2014 their magic threshold for money being \u201csuspicious.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

In August 2019, 57-year-old Rebecca Brown was flying out of Pittsburgh International Airport while carrying a Tupperware container with her father\u2019s life savings \u2014 $82,373. Her 79-year-old father was showing signs of mental decline and was worried about keeping so much cash in his house. Brown was transporting the stash to her home in Boston where she planned to set up a joint bank account. A TSA agent noticed the money while scanning Brown\u2019s carry-on luggage and alerted a DEA agent who asked Brown some questions and then announced he was seizing the cash. The DEA agent put Brown\u2019s money \u201cinto a plastic bag and told her someone would be in touch with her,\u201d the Washington Post<\/em> reported. The cash grab prevented her father from fixing up his old pickup truck and getting badly needed dental surgery. After an Institute for Justice lawsuit challenging the seizure was publicized, DEA sent Brown a letter rotely declaring: \u201cAfter further review, a decision has been made to return the property.\u201d<\/p>\n

DEA has paid numerous TSA agents across the nation to alert them when they detect ample cash during screening<\/strong>. Josh Gingerich was traveling from Chicago home to the Sacramento area in 2018 when a TSA agent notified DEA agents about $29,000 in cash in his backpack. According to Gingerich, who purchases and resells trucks, DEA agents \u201cclaimed to smell marijuana on a plastic bag filled with dirty laundry in his backpack\u2026 Officers dumped the clothes, filled the bag with cash, then brought it to the drug dog.\u201d The agents found no drugs, but an alleged scent sufficed to seize the money.\u00a0 TSA agents were sometimes permitted to keep a percentage<\/a> of travelers\u2019 cash they helped seize but that brazen abuse reportedly no longer occurs.<\/p>\n

Federal law prohibits travelers from taking more than $10,000 in cash out of or into the U.S. without filling out an official form. But traveling inside the U.S. with hefty amounts of cash is perfectly legal.<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t stop TSA from plundering passengers on any and every BS pretext.\u00a0\u00a0 The government doesn\u2019t have to prove the person is guilty. Instead, the feds simply take the money and private citizens must engage in a long, expensive fight to attempt to get their money back. TSA routinely uses unreliable alerts by police canines to justify confiscating cash \u2013 even though dogs respond positively to almost any bulk currency since drug contamination is widespread on U.S. bills.<\/p>\n

TSA cash seizures are arbitrary power at its worst.\u00a0 Though TSA considers travelers carrying \u201cbulk cash\u201d to be a great evil, the agency refuses to limit its power by defining the menace. TSA \u201ccleverly leaves the definition of a large amount of cash up to the individual TSA screener,\u201d Alban notes.<\/p>\n

TSA agents in Indiana are encouraged to \u201ctrust your instinct\u201d<\/a> when it comes to commandeering passengers\u2019 money<\/strong>. TSA agents in North Dakota are told that \u201cany large amount of currency will be reported, even if you believe it to be in the low thousands.\u201d\u00a0 TSA agents at the Dallas, Texas airport have been ordered to \u201cimmediately\u201d notify Law Enforcement Officers about \u201cALL discovered bulk cash… regardless of amount.\u201d<\/p>\n

Airport cash seizures are turbocharged because TSA considers almost everything to be \u201cevidence of criminal activity.\u201d<\/strong> TSA agents can seize money if it is \u201cRubber Banded,\u201d bundled in \u201cStore Bought Bands,\u201d or bundled with \u201cHand Made Bands.\u201d If there is a \u201cHand Made Label\u201d on the cash, then it is guilty as hell or at least \u201cclose enough for government work\u201d guilty.\u00a0 TSA agents can seize money if it is suspiciously all of the same denomination of currency \u2013 or if it is suspiciously of different denominations. TSA agents can seize money if it is \u201cConcealed in Bags\u201d the size of a purse \u2013 and also, if it is in a purse.\u00a0 Carrying any money in your socks<\/a> is treated like a full confession.<\/p>\n

TSA condemns travelers for concealing money even though more than 500 TSA agents have been fired for robbing passengers.<\/strong> I hammered that nationwide looting spree<\/a> in a 2004 New York Times op-ed. Remember the Newark, New Jersey TSA agent who confessed to selling<\/a> on Ebay scores of laptops, cameras, and cell phones he stole from travelers? Three TSA agents were busted for stealing in Miami in 2023, the New York Post reported<\/a>, and one admitted seizing a thousand dollars a day from wallets sent through TSA x-ray systems.<\/p>\n

At some airports, TSA agents rely on \u201cbehavior detection\u201d checklists to target travelers for extra scrutiny, which could increase the chance of their cash being seized.\u00a0 The current checklist is secret but TSA agents previously zeroed in on anyone who seems \u201cvery arrogant and expresses contempt<\/a> against airport passenger procedures.\u201d\u00a0 If someone gets riled up after TSA takes his money, does that prove he was up to no good?<\/strong><\/p>\n

These airport robberies would not be occurring if TSA had not previously nullified Americans\u2019 constitutional right to be free of unreasonable warrantless searches. Alban points out that \u201cTSA screeners are not law enforcement officers, and the TSA is not authorized to conduct general criminal investigation.\u201d But TSA claims that Americans effectively waived any right to privacy by \u201cvoluntarily\u201d submitting to searches. A federal appeals court noted in 2019 that the Justice Department \u201ccontends that consent by passengers cancels the Fourth Amendment\u2019s effect.\u201d But there is no consent when the alternative is being prohibited forever from taking any commercial flight in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Compelling TSA to cease plundering travelers is a step toward putting Uncle Sam back on a constitutional leash.<\/strong> It is time for equal rights for non-billionaires who cannot afford to fly on private jets exempt from TSA depredations.<\/p>\n

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Thanks to Pixabay<\/a> and biggerthanpluto<\/a> for the robber vector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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