You people are all wrong and paranoid. It is not illegal to bring in 10k or more into the us, I do it all the time, what is illegal is to lie and not declare it on that stupid form they have you fill out. I happen to do (way to much) gambling. I go out of the country often and always declare the 10k plus when returning and at worst they ask you why, and or where the money was from and I say gambling and general spending cash and that is the end of that. If however you do not declare it and for some reason they search you and find it they can and most likely will sieze it. As a matter of fact my 47th b-day was 2 weeks ago (Jan 17th) and I took the family to the Atlantis in the Bahamas and not only me but one of my 2 sons both had over 10k on us and declared it. No biggie, the agent joked and asked me to adopt him and said glad to see someone had some luck.
Little does he know the money we had was not as much as we went with..
