USA Border

We crossed over the border from New Brunswick to Maine yesterday afternoon. We both expected our van to be searched but did not expect what actually happened...they did want to search our van so we went inside to a huge room where there was about 6 border patrol people standing around (no other people crossing through at this time) and directed us to talk to one of them who took my purse and Mike's wallet and our phones, asked us a few basic border crossing questions ("where are you going?" "why?" "are you married?" "how do you know each other?" "how much money do you have?") We stood there for a few minutes while he checked our passports then he asked me to sit down. He asked Mike all sorts of questions about his previous border crossings then asked him to sit down. We waited while he pulled everything out of my purse, wallet and Mike's wallet, pausing to ask us why we both have a policy number written down (our travel insurance) and asking us what every single key on our key chains were for. Meanwhile, 4 other people are searching the van. Next, him and another guy asked Mike to stand in a square (If he didn't stand in the square "it would be painful") then had him pull out his pockets to show he didn't have anything in them or in his pants which took about 5 minutes. He asked me to get up next, jokingly asking if my pants even had pockets (I was in yoga pants) which I showed him did indeed have pockets, he laughed, asked me to turn around so he could see if I had back pockets then sent me back to sit down. By this point we were a bit anxious but I was thinking it wouldn't be much longer until we could go as about an hour had already passed. But no, he wanted the pass codes to both our phones now. We thought that if we had a pass code that they would not be allowed to search our phones so I questioned him about it which he replied "We have the authority to search any personal belongings" so we gave him the pass codes...he proceeded to search through all our text messages and photos. He saw a text from the bank on my phone with the balance of my chequing account which was a smaller amount then what I had declared I had so I told him the rest was in another account. He then asked Mike questions about who various people he had texted were and about the subjects of the texts. He talked to him for a while about why he couldn't get a lay off from his job and why he doesn't have another job lined up and read texts about other people getting lay offs a couple weeks after Mike had left so that was an issue...a while later he made me sign into my bank account to show him how much money I had. He also asked for the blog address and looked at it. (If your reading this border patrol man, you suck!) By this point we were very frustrated as that man searched through all our personal stuff on our phones and the other border patrol people stood around joking and laughing. We felt like garbage. What a huge invasion of our privacy! We are two nice normal people with nothing to hide who are on a vacation, was that not clear!?!? Anyways, there was a million other stupid questions he asked us about random stuff and finally he let us through...that was after two hours. And I honestly feel like they just did that for fun, they picked us out and scrutinized everything about us just for kicks. Anyone else whose vehicle they searched wasn't there for longer then 10 minutes before they were let through. After this trip I will absolutely not be in any rush to return to this country after the way they treated us. Never in my life have I felt more violated of my privacy. And for no apparent reason.