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Didn't DHS also declare that 100 mile range from the border is basically Constitution-free? This is mighty convenient, as they can now search everyone like this within that 100 mile range.


DHS can say whatever it wants, but SCOTUS says that the search has to actually take place at the border. See for instance Almeida-Sanchez v. US.

"Constitution free" is obviously hyperbolic.


What good is what the Supreme Court said, if the DHS freely violates it?

Nothing personal, but you seem to pay more attention to what the law says then what actually ends up happening. This is a common issue in American politics


How does this mentality response to Japanese internment camps? Should we have given up on the whole enterprise after WW2?

For whatever it's worth to you, when you take a detour from your argument to point out what you think I believe, that is in fact a personal statement. I take no offense, but don't kid yourself about what you're doing.


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That 100 mile range is from any boarder and coastline and covers most of the US population.

http://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/fact-sheet-us-con... http://www.aclu.org/constitution-free-zone-map


Wow. I thought I did a decent job of keeping up on the USFG's encroachment on civil liberties but I missed this particular blend of lunacy. Thanks for the links.


[citation needed], as the Slashdot discussion [1] had conflicting reports.

[1] http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/02/09/0054212/dhs-can-seize...


I'm a Canadian and I was pulled over and questioned at a dhs check stop a few years ago, within this 100 mile zone. It all went fine, but the did ask what I was up to when I went through the same check the next day. (I was sightseeing).




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