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I believe pretty much none of these protections exist at the US border if you aren't a US citizen, which isn't that much of an edge case considering that's like
by dividedbyzero 6y ago
I believe pretty much none of these protections exist at the US border if you aren't a US citizen, which isn't that much of an edge case considering that's like 96% of the world's population and a lot of people may want or have to visit the US at some point.
- manigandham 6y agoWhy do you expect that they would apply to non-citizens crossing an international border?
- NotSammyHagar 6y agoI think you must be talking about another situation than the US, can you explain? The us border patrol can do this to citizens and non-citizens, and they assert their right to do it to anyone within 100 miles of the border, which is much more than half the us population. I don't want this for noncitizens crossing the border either. One reason for that is I don't want this to happen to me either. During the bush 2 administration, they were harassing people traveling to the us who were making documentaries about the us in the iraq war. This is just a convenient way for them to invade the lives of privacy of people coming through the border.
- manigandham 6y agoThe previous poster was talking about non-citizens and that's what I responded to. Non-citizens by definition don't have the same rights. I never said I supported this but just explained what would happen in the original scenario and that this isn't new policy. Anyways I've given up trying to deal with the irrational and emotional behavior on HN when it comes to political topics.