Law Enforcement Uses Border Search Exception as Fourth Amendment Loophole

Re:Law Enforcement Uses Border Search Exception as Fourth Am... by rayiner on Saturday December 10, 2016 @09:25AM (#13145749)

That's been well debunked. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/jan/... http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2013/02/does-a-constituti...

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Re:Law Enforcement Uses Border Search Exception as Fourth Am... by Spooky23 on Saturday December 10, 2016 @03:04PM (#13147596)

It's somewhere in the middle of ACLUs hysterics and "no problem". You're taking a strong control against abuse (warrant) and replacing it with police discretion.

Given the broad liberties that the modern government takes with things, I think skepticism is in order.

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Re:Law Enforcement Uses Border Search Exception as Fourth Am... by tptacek on Saturday December 10, 2016 @03:28PM (#13147730)

We don't have to wonder about this. It's come up more than once before SCOTUS, and SCOTUS decisively rejected the idea. To apply border crossing doctrines to a search, the case has to have some nexus with an actual border crossing.

People live a couple miles from the Canadian border do not, in fact, lose their 4th Amendment rights.

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