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Well technically, the border agent is in the United States. You, presenting your passport are outside the United States and requesting entry. This has consisten
by brewdad 3y ago
Well technically, the border agent is in the United States. You, presenting your passport are outside the United States and requesting entry. This has consistently been the basis for the "border exception". By requesting entry, you place yourself under the jurisdiction of the border officer however you are not physically present in the US, so you do not benefit from its legal protections.
- dpifke 3y agoSo what country's laws apply if you kill the jerk who cut in front of you in the line to talk to the border officer?
- 0cf8612b2e1e 3y agoOooh, I like this one. Force the courts to claim jurisdiction or say it is in fact anything-goes inside this box.
- dpifke 3y agoIt's a nice rhetorical question, which is why I raised it. In practice, it's probably like the county in Idaho in which a law professor once posited you could get away with murder[0] because there'd be no "jury of your peers" to convict you. [0]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=691642 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=691642
- mauvehaus 3y agoIf you'd prefer to read about this on Wikipedia, there's an article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_Death_(Yellowstone) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_Death_(Yellowstone)
- ClumsyPilot 3y ago> By requesting entry, you place yourself under the jurisdiction of the border officer however you are not physically present in the US, so you do not benefit from its legal protections This doesn't sound right - if it was true, border officers would be free to mug and rape.