Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Border Lawless
(this is being posted since Neebish Island is right on the Canadian border.)
ACLU Assails 100-Mile Border Zone as 'Constitution-Free'
The government has long been able to search people entering and exiting the country without need to say why, which is known as the border search exception of the Fourth Amendment.
After 9/11, Congress gave the Department of Homeland Security the right to use some of its powers deeper within the country, and now DHS has set up at least 33 internal checkpoints where they stop people, question them and ask them to prove citizenship...
Labels: law
