> It was my understanding that 5-th amendment protections against unreasonable searches are suspended at the border. That would certainly include customs at the

> It was my understanding that 5-th amendment protections against unreasonable searches are suspended at the border. That would certainly include customs at the airport. This isn't true and has never been backed up by a court ruling, including at the Supreme Court. Currently there is no legal foundation to the premise that any rights for US citizens are suspended just because you're at the border (typically people refer to the premise as also including N miles inside of the border, eg 100 or 300 miles). Right now what you have is a few government agencies attempting to write over the Constitution, without anything to actually support their doing so. They go out of their way to avoid an actual court confrontation with their fake / invented 'laws,' knowing that they'll lose.