when you are applying for admission into the US from another country (US citizen or not) your person and all your property is subject to search. This is a known fact. If you don’t like it, don’t leave the country. This has been the standard for YEARS.
The concept of the court ruling is crossing the boarder as a US citizen does NOT create reasonable suspicion to be searched.
This means your 4th amendment rights still stand.
AS far as 100 miles from a border, the US Border Patrol has checkpoints set up 10-50 miles from the border in attempt to prevent smuggling of people and narcotics. These are set up on major routes leave the border area…
SURPRISE! smugglers don’t use a port of entry to enter the United States…they walk around, anywheres from 2-20 miles, and then get in a vehicle, or load the vehicle with narcotics and take it north bound (which is where the checkpoints come in handy)
The videos posted above are retarded… people that do that shit have no lives. I can’t tell you HOW many 18-24 year old caucasian male/females with no prior criminal history have been popped for smuggling.
Does the DHS make mistakes? Sure, just like every other law enforcement agency in the world…it would be very easy if all the bad guys wore a sign on their forehead that said “bad guy”
If you are traveling near the border, and an agent has REASONABLE SUSPICION (READ: NOT NO SUSPICION) that you are in violation of a federal law, (smuggling aliens or drugs) which, in southern Arizona,Texas etc, is quite a common occurrence… you CAN be stopped and investigated.
I understand this concept but the original argument was this 100 mile radius was except from the 4th amendment.
The court has ruled that the 4th amendment is still valid in this area.
don’t believe everything you read…no gov’t official is going to search through your computer, ESPECIALLY in the continental United States… now, again, crossing the border, you and your property are subject to search… but that is completely different than being IN the US.
I know people who work on controversial computer projects and have had equipment taken and threats made over giving up passwords.
This is also part of a larger issue with local police departments searching cell phones with out a warrant.
I have nothing against DHS agents I have a number of friends who work there.
There are a number of things that are not supposed to happen but still do for example the FBI requesting emails for user accounts on Gmail with out a warrant or wiretaps that just happen lol