So What Brings You to Our Country Today?

I've been watching a lot of "Nothing to Declare" on YouTube because I've recently been addicted to the Police Confession/Interrogation RealityTV" genre.  I've watched entire police confessions from high profile killers half out of voyeurism and fascination and also for my own research to understand the games and ways that real interrogations at the border and in questioning rooms work.  It seems that the tactic is to drain your energy until you confess.  Hours and hours of grilling you with the same questions asked different ways and other mind manipulation tactics.  I've been also watching "To Catch a Smuggler" which was a natural succession because it was on the related videos tab where my attention naturally migrated.  I've recently found out that I'm actually an empath, so it is quite hard for us empathic people to hide our feelings, and police and border patrol authorities look for a break in your emotions while they are questioning you.  The interrogation that is recorded at the borders of the U.S, Canada, UK, and New Zealand.  You watch individuals try to lie on camera and get caught one after the other trying to smuggle everything from currency, drugs, meat and live insects.  There have been a few escorts on these shows who come from other countries and in the end, they confess and they are refused admittance from the Canadian episodes that I've seen after officers went through one woman's phone and found her work emails.  I have been detained and refused entry into Canada for bringing a weed pipe in my car thinking that I would save money buying a pipe, so I'd just not bring the weed flowers but bring my pipe.  It is illegal to carry marijuana from state to state of any quantity even if it is legal in the state you are leaving and going to.  It's still consider smuggling of drugs!  "We are arresting you for smuggling or attempting to smuggle xyz."   I had a pipe and after thorough inspection of my entire vehicle they did find a truly forgotten about half gram of kief powder (green powder you sprinkle on your bowl) in between my seats but it wasn't enough to arrest me.  in the mean time they did rifle through my shit including my journal, and kept me on each country's border for 6 hours, as well as perform a body search on me.  And since then, entry into Canada is frightening because I really was just intending to be a tourist that day.  They stop and turn back illegal workers all the time.  They rifle through your bags to see if you have any professional equipment and if you do ask if you have a work permit.  "I'm here to meet a girl from the internet" or "Just here for vacation" is used frequently, but fails when they open the suitcase and you've got construction worker equipment or martial arts gear in your suitcase.  And then they ask if they can speak to your girl or boyfriend to verify your story.  So I'm learning how to make sure to get my ducks in a line if I am going to lie about something through this show.  Don't be caught stuttering and stammering.  I really don't know how they let me into Japan.  I sometimes think Japan is super strict but not so smart.  To get a Japanese visa it asks you to check yes or no to the question "Have you ever been associated with prostitution?" I checked NO of course.  ;)
But they clearly don't google people.  When you google my government name it shows that I am a transsexual prostitute high up on the results.  And some other sex worker art festivals which I can say I was a performer in.  I can bust an R.Kelly and easily say everything on the internet is a lie.  Because I'm definitely not a transsexual.  Whoever wrote that is not hurting me because I can identify as genderqueer even though I'm a cis woman.  I don't mind being called a dude, or being told I am masculine, but because the transsexual prostitute article is high ranked it actually helps me lie about the fact that I'm not a prostitute. :)

Some people just think they can get away with it or pass through undetected without hiding it all just mixed into their luggage, others swallow capsules, body pack it, there are seizures by mail where people have hidden it in a laptop or in false parts of suitcases or briefcases.  This show shows them all and shows them being discovered on camera.  Shows the x-rays where you can see all the capsules in the stomach in the body x-ray!  ALL OF THE GUILTY PEOPLE LIE.  They also show people with false suspiciouns who after thorough inspection turn out to be clean.  It seems pretty realistic to me.  Except, that they are probably making it seem like they catch a lot more people than they actually do.  And then they're caught.  Or these people on camera are caught.  It's effectively got me scared shitless of bringing anything at ALL or working illegally overseas anywhere.  But, I remember that that is the point of these shows.