Re:ACLU: Border Agents Violate Constitution When They Search...
by lovich on Thursday May 02, 2019 @09:30PM
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>First, calling that a “Constitution-free zone” is rhetoric, not fact.
Declaring that the de jure words on paper are the de facto events on the ground is rhetoric, not fact. It doesn't matter what the law says if it's not enforced. There are border patrol checkpoints between major population centers of the United States and they are currently searching people under the suspicion that they crossed the border.
The Constitution says that US citizens are free from unreasonable searches. The border patrol is searching populations that are traveling within the United States based on the concept that they must have crossed the border. If the rules of the Constitution aren't being enforced, how is that not a Constitution free zone?
Declaring that the de jure words on paper are the de facto events on the ground is rhetoric, not fact. It doesn't matter what the law says if it's not enforced. There are border patrol checkpoints between major population centers of the United States and they are currently searching people under the suspicion that they crossed the border.
The Constitution says that US citizens are free from unreasonable searches. The border patrol is searching populations that are traveling within the United States based on the concept that they must have crossed the border. If the rules of the Constitution aren't being enforced, how is that not a Constitution free zone?