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Re:US Border Patrol says they can create central repository ... by Hnrobert42 on Sunday August 23, 2020 @08:20PM (#24256482)
Actually, the First Congress okayed border searches. Given that many of them were authors of the Constitution, it stands to reason that border searches were always intended to be allowed under the Constitution, even if not stated explicitly.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-4/b...

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Re:US Border Patrol says they can create central repository ... by ceejayoz on Monday August 24, 2020 @08:32AM (#24259965)
Did they expect the definition of “border” to get quite so mangled, though?

https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone

I also suspect they did not anticipate it being both feasible and normal to have one’s entire private writings on one’s person at all times like modern phones permit.

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