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•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.
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.”
Nephalim
I think the DHS needs a smaller tip on that red marker.
Klassified
ETA:
Ok. In re-reading parts of his article, he says...
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.”
Always!? Uhmmm. What?
seeker1963
reply to post by Klassified
I am still digging trying to find it, Klassified! If anyone else can find it, feel free to post. I don't care which administration approved it. It's wrong and needs to be changed and those whom approved it, need to go see Bubba in a little prison cell......