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In fact, you can drive between any two places in the US and never be searched or questioned or anything. Unless you are within 100 miles of the coast or border
by mthoms 16y ago
In fact, you can drive between any two places in the US and never be searched or questioned or anything.
Unless you are within 100 miles of the coast or border. http://www.aclu.org/national-security_technology-and-liberty/are-you-living-constitution-free-zone http://www.aclu.org/national-security_technology-and-liberty...
- moxiemk1 16y agoWhich unfortunately includes my hometown in Vermont (as well as anywhere remotely close to it). I've been stopped at border-patrol checkpoints 100 miles by driving (so shorter as the crow flies) from the border before. It's certainly "unreasonable" in the 4th amendment context.
- steveklabnik 16y agoI think the first sentence is important enough to pull out on its own: Using data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, the ACLU has determined that nearly 2/3 of the entire US population (197.4 million people) live within 100 miles of the US land and coastal borders.