To explain a little further, I pulled this excerpt from a related article on the ACLU site:

•Normally under the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the American people are not generally subject to random and arbitrary stops and searches.
•The border, however, has always been an exception. There, the longstanding view is that the normal rules do not apply. For example the authorities do not need a warrant or probable cause to conduct a “routine search.”
•But what is “the border”? According to the government, it is a 100-mile wide strip that wraps around the “external boundary” of the United States.
•As a result of this claimed authority, individuals who are far away from the border, American citizens traveling from one place in America to another, are being stopped and harassed in ways that our Constitution does not permit.

Basically, the requirement to "spread em" at the border, which is usually a relatively narrow passage, is now considered to extend 100 miles in land.

Quite crazy in my opinion. Is there going to be a influx of American citizens moving to the central states? I think not and thus millions of people are willingly giving up theri constitutional rights in the eyes of the Fed because of their location...

ALL US citizens are ALWAYS protected by the US Constitution. It's just a matter of who is willing to fight for it.

Originally posted by lynxpilot
ALL US citizens are ALWAYS protected by the US Constitution. It's just a matter of who is willing to fight for it.

Thank you. Exactly who decided that a 100 mile boundary existed and the constitution does not apply there? Where is this law? Where is this written IN the constitution? Where is it written in the bill of rights?

As far as I'm concerned.. I'm covered. Any anyone trying to take that away from me can come and try.

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@Littled

Just got to yours and now I do remember this since you said the date. I was still very much trucking then and it didn't effectively change anything. I did start seeing immigration checks out on I-8 and I-10 where I hadn't seen them before...but nothing much else for this if it's the same I recall.

I would agree that this is unconstitutional... Whether ot not this has affected anyone, its still quite interesting and infuriating at the same time... So, how about the coast line? Is that considered a border too?

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I generally believe nothing that the American Communist Lawyer's Union states publicly. With that being said, I think you need to look at our international borders and the enforcement measures that are in place.
For 8 years I lived in Tucson, well within the 100 mile "lose you freedoms" zone. The U.S. Border Patrol is a constant presence in that area. Random checkpoints are scattered all over southern Arizona and being stopped by the U.S.B.P. is really no big deal... if you are a U.S. citizen and not committing a crime. I have been stopped by U.S.B.P checkpoints at least 3 or 4 dozen times; in every instance the Border Patrol agents were completely professional and courteous. Twice my vehicle was taken aside for further inspection, and both times I was held up for less than 5 minutes.
Now I live within 60 miles of our Canadian border. I have been here nearly 10 months; in that time I have seen 1 Border Patrol vehicle. One.
Of course, the disparity of enforcement between our Canadian border and Mexican border is very easily explained.
Canada is a prosperous nation.
Mexico is a cesspool.

The sad thing is that our Border Patrol can't even do their jobs anymore as the Obama administration has handcuffed them. How many man hours and tax dollars were wasted on the 2000+ illegals that were put back on the streets in a move that was done CLEARLY to spite the American people.

If the ACLU is so determined to take down those that violate our civil liberties (as their name would imply), I challenge them to take down the REAL violators... Obama, Reid, Boxer, Feinstein, Holder, Biden, McCain, Rockefeller, the Clintons, the Bushes, Halliburton, Monsanto... just for starters.

And, of course, Rosie O'Donnell... just because

Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
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@Littled

Just got to yours and now I do remember this since you said the date. I was still very much trucking then and it didn't effectively change anything. I did start seeing immigration checks out on I-8 and I-10 where I hadn't seen them before...but nothing much else for this if it's the same I recall.

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That is an amazing memory that you have to remember a road construction from 7 years ago... What were the mile markers at? As a trucker who knows every inch of the road between I-8 and I-10, what marker was it 7 years ago?

I'm outraged !!!!

I've lived in the "constitution free zone" 45 out of 45 years of my life and nobody I know has ever been illegally searched

ever

And how many times are border searches in compliance with this?

supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.