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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday May 02 2019, @03:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the delusions-of-grandeur dept.

This is a guest post by Hugh Handeyside, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project, Nathan Freed Wessler, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, and Esha Bhandari, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. It was originally posted on the ACLU Speak Freely blog.

In September 2017, we, along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, sued the federal government for its warrantless and suspicionless searches of phones and laptops at airports and other U.S. ports of entry.

The government immediately tried to dismiss our case, arguing that the First and Fourth Amendments do not protect against such searches. But the court ruled that our clients — 10 U.S. citizens and one lawful permanent resident whose phones and laptops were searched while returning to the United States — could move forward with their claims.

Since then, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have had to turn over documents and evidence about why and how they conduct warrantless and suspicionless searches of electronic devices at the border. And their officials have had to sit down with us to explain — under oath — their policies and practices governing such warrantless searches.

What we learned is alarming, and we're now back in court with this new evidence asking the judge to skip trial altogether and rule for our clients.

Source: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/we-got-us-border-officials-testify-under-oath-heres-what-we-found-out


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by urza9814 on Thursday May 02 2019, @08:31PM (1 child)

    by urza9814 (3954) on Thursday May 02 2019, @08:31PM (#838098) Journal

    Border guards are apprehending law-breaking people and also native-born American citizens who have never left the country on a daily basis. They deal with dangerous smugglers, and they deal with poor, often exhausted, people hoping for a better life. They also might deal with your insufficiently white neighbors who are just trying to enjoy their vacation. It's stressful, it can be deadly, it's rewarding when you catch bad guys, it's profitable when you get free prison labor by forcing citizens to labor for $1/day until they can afford to purchase a copy of their own birth certificate, it's ambiguous when you catch desperate people, and it's horrible when you find dead people.

    FTFY. See page 20 for that particular citation...although the entire report might be worth a read:
    https://www.amnestyusa.org/reports/usa-jailed-without-justice/ [amnestyusa.org]

    And for those complaining about Trump...that particular incident comes from a 2008 hearing before the House of Representatives. ICE has been an atrocious law-defying travesty since the day it was created.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by deimtee on Thursday May 02 2019, @11:56PM

    by deimtee (3272) on Thursday May 02 2019, @11:56PM (#838189) Journal

    Don't forget civil forfeiture. If you have more than (n * Albedo) dollars in your pocket you are obviously buying drugs and they will take your money. Very profitable.

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