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The border search exception considers the "border" to stretch 100 miles inland, corralling two-thirds of the American population within this zone of "virtually
by user982 10y ago
The border search exception considers the "border" to stretch 100 miles inland, corralling two-thirds of the American population within this zone of "virtually no rights."[1]
[1]: https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
- rayiner 10y agoThat's been well debunked. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/jan/13/facebook-posts/facebook-post-says-constitution-exemption-zones-ex; http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/jan/... http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2013/02/does-a-constitution-free-zone-really-exist-in-america/ http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2013/02/does-a-constituti...
- Spooky23 10y agoIt's somewhere in the middle of ACLUs hysterics and "no problem". You're taking a strong control against abuse (warrant) and replacing it with police discretion. Given the broad liberties that the modern government takes with things, I think skepticism is in order.
- tptacek 10y agoWe don't have to wonder about this. It's come up more than once before SCOTUS, and SCOTUS decisively rejected the idea. To apply border crossing doctrines to a search, the case has to have some nexus with an actual border crossing. People live a couple miles from the Canadian border do not, in fact, lose their 4th Amendment rights.