Mass strip search of U.S. students by Canadian guards broke policy, documents show

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A busload of American college and university students was strip-searched by Canadian border guards three years ago in an incident that violated government policy, documents show.


http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/04/24/mass-strip-search-of-us-students-by-canadian-guards-broke-policy-documents-show.html


The following several hours were “a nightmare . . . it was a horror story,” one passenger said in an interview. The man, now 27, requested his name not be used for this story.

“I had to go into a room, with two guys that were sitting at a table, and take off all my clothes, and then drop my pants and turn around,” he said. “(The passengers) were pretty agitated . . . . There were some girls crying. They were pretty upset.”