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That’s not true. CBP has plenty of permanent and many more tactical search checkpoints throughout the country where you are subject to search. Many of these are
by darth_avocado 3y ago
That’s not true. CBP has plenty of permanent and many more tactical search checkpoints throughout the country where you are subject to search. Many of these are 70+ miles from the border.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Border_Patrol_interior_checkpoints https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Border_Patrol_...
- tptacek 3y agoThey are allowed to stop people who have crossed the border at (often permanent) checkpoints many miles from the border. They can ask to search anybody! And within the ambit of their authority they can probably search with reasonable suspicion. It's not my claim that CBP can't search you anywhere but the actual border, but rather that the notion that everyone living within 100 (or 50 or 12 nmi or whatever) miles from the border is subject to constant CBP search. If you check this in the search bar at the bottom of the page you'll see this has come up a bunch on HN (it's a lurid and exciting notion to toss around!) and there are SCOTUS cites in the results.
- selimthegrim 3y agoHow is Chicago within this given no international border in Lake Michigan?
- tptacek 3y agoIt's not!
- selimthegrim 3y agoIn a comment of yours from 2019 you cited documents that apparently CBP thinks every Great Lake is a border. Is this still true?
- tptacek 3y agoPresumably that comment predates 'jcranmer setting me straight.