A U.S. Border Patrol agent in New York pleaded guilty in federal court last week to making women expose their breasts to enter the country.
According to a Department of Justice release, Shane Millan, 53, admitted willfully depriving multiple victims of their constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches by commanding them to bare their breasts via webcam during virtual processing sessions.
Millan admitted in his plea that he told the victims his requests were legitimate and required for their admission into the United States but knew the demands “were for his own gratification.”
Millan was arrested in August and accused of depriving four women of their right to be free from unreasonable searches.
In three cases, he made the women expose their upper bodies while he was processing their applications to enter the country.
In one of those cases, Millan told a woman in Eagle Pass, Texas, who was with her 1-year-old daughter, that her files showed she had a tattoo on her chest.
When the woman denied having any such tattoos, Millan allegedly ordered her to lift her shirt to prove the files were wrong.
Millan made the woman expose herself a second time and told her he wouldn’t approve her entry to the U.S. unless she complied.
After the woman bared her breasts a second time, Millan reportedly said, “OK. Welcome to the USA.”
A fourth woman was also ordered to take off her top but keep wearing her bra.
Millan also searched online for how to say phrases in Spanish like, “I will need you to lift your shirt and bra also, please” and “to verify I will need you to lift your shirt, please,” according to court records obtained by the Miami Herald.
He is scheduled to be sentenced on July 7 and faces up to two years in prison and a fine of up to $200,000.
