[onetwofiveten]

This is a pretty empty argument. It's up to the United States to decide all of its policies. So what? That doesn't make it unreasonable for outsiders to comment on how stupid or broken they are. Similarly broken policies in other countries aren't really much justification either.

[JoeAltmaier]

And how broken were they? Clearly the agents had just caught a smuggler; the OP said so. They were performing their duties up to some standard.

This article is essentially about a 'false positive' by the border agents, nothing more.