portfolios that have to be managed, it is very difficult to figure out which one is going to pop off. jenna: that is so important for us, again, according to customs they were able to screen people, they were able to use their databases, it was just lower. but you say that a lot of the folks that have committed bad acts are actually known entities, so even if they did pop up in the database, it may not tell us when things or the other. a lot of times it isn t about the database turning back a threat. you think back to year 2001, the 20th hijacker for 9/11, he got to customs in orlando airport, and it was a suspicious and it was a customs official that look at us looked at him and wouldn t let him in. that wasn t a database, that was a human intelligence looking at him and turned him away for it a lot of it requires more than just data crunching. jenna: that is some really important context, thank you for that. i want to ask you a little bit about what is going on in the investiga
they could go above and beyond and there s three pilot programs started in the last year to experiment with it. if you re asking does this customs official did. i have a checked box. no, i don t have a check list for social media. i was excited about the story. if that memo that you obtained, if that had become policy and practice, would there have been a you must check this box? what it would have done, according to how it was written and our officials, some anonymous who have spoken to us say, it would have at least opened the door to trying to do that on a regular basis with limited means. it wouldn t have necessarily gone after everything in social media but it would have been a step forward on that. the term of art was publicly available. they would use publicly available media information. what s interesting about the hearing, where the law meets politics, it was republicans and democrats saying, wait a minute, years ago this was proposed, by the security officials, not p
people don t want to go inside their buildings, they don t want to sleep inside. they are sleeping in open areas, in parks. almost every green space in the city has been turned into a campground. families with cooking pots and their children are living on the sidewalks, living in the middle of the streets because they don t want to be near the buildings. a lot of the buildings in the city are made of brick, made of concrete. because of the aftershocks, bits and pieces of the building, entire walls in some cases, are still falling down. you don t want to be anywhere near them. we felt one of the aftershocks this morning, quite a strong one, 6.7. we had just arrived in the country, were at the airport. the building started to shake, we were going through immigration at the time. the customs official and immigration officials ran away. they ran for cover. then after a few minutes, they came back and business went more or less back to normal. and i must say the people here
a little slow at the uptake, when he first went over the border and then it caused this big dustup, we re told there was a customs official who was ready to bring him back to the united states, it was an accident, no foul no play so go back. that a mexican soldier on the scene overruled the customs official and said, he is not going back. was there anything that your son did or said that or that the he revealed that might have escalated tensions accidently? no. clearly when he accidentally made that left turn thinking it was headed north to san diego and swiftly turns south into mexico, a blind curve, and ended up there at the first stop, a mexico customs agent believed him, andrew said they believed him, that it was a mistake, and andrew said i don t want to be here, accidentally crossed the
customs official asked to see the his laptop which included photos of hamas immigration rally in the middle east. i explained to the immigration officer i had the photos this was my research. reporter: he was cuffed and held for hours while the computer was searched for 11 days. the aclu doesn t oppose searching of laptops and other electronic voices at the border. we think when some government examines the contents of someone s electronic devices they have to have reasonable suspicion. reporter: but they don t, whether a port of entry in arizona or customs in los angeles. customs has the right to look at your bag, computer, cell phone or camera. supreme court consistently held that border officers can search without suspicion for routine searches. reporter: they argue that the they are essentialality for public safety and they agreed