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You can't leave out the crucial bit that it's all about border searches, for people who have recently crossed the border. Are you suggesting that if I haven't
by rosser 13y ago
You can't leave out the crucial bit that it's all about border searches, for people who have recently crossed the border.
Are you suggesting that if I haven't recently crossed a border, I'm somehow immune to these searches, or have a right to refuse them?
- rayiner 13y agohttp://www.texasobserver.org/border-patrol-takes-no-for-an-answer-at-internal-checkpoints http://www.texasobserver.org/border-patrol-takes-no-for-an-a... http://www.flexyourrights.org/faqs/my-rights-at-checkpoints/ http://www.flexyourrights.org/faqs/my-rights-at-checkpoints/
- rosser 13y agoThanks for these. From the first article, according to a CBP spokesman: “Although motorists are not legally required to answer the questions ‘are you a U.S. citizen and where are you headed,’ they will not be allowed to proceed until the inspecting agent is satisfied that the occupants of vehicles traveling through the checkpoint are legally present in the U.S.” That suggests to me that CBP, at least, sees these stops as rather custodial.
- makomk 13y agoThat second article is definitely less than honest on some of its other points - for example, it turns out that drug dogs in the US alert when their handler wants them to rather than on finding drugs, so if the police have a drug dog with them they can effectively search the car of anyone they take a dislike to. I'm curious as to whether it's omitting important details about the DHS checkpoints too.