Saturday, October 25, 2008

ACLU maps "Constitution-free zone"

According to the U.S. Government, the nearly 2 out of 3 Americans who live within 100 miles of a U.S. land and coastal border can be stopped and searched without regard to the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, under which the American people are not generally subject to random and arbitrary stops and searches.

The rationale for this is that according to the government, "the border" is a 100-mile wide strip that wraps around the “external boundary” of the United States. And at "the border", authorities do not need a warrant or probable cause to conduct a “routine search.”

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