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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: 4, Informative) by urza9814 on Thursday May 02 2019, @08:37PM (1 child)

    by urza9814 (3954) on Thursday May 02 2019, @08:37PM (#838102) Journal

    Even your sarcastic absurdity is insufficiently absurd to capture the true horrors of ICE.

    What you don't often hear about is that sometimes these "detailed illegals" are native-born US citizens who never even stepped foot outside of our country. Doesn't matter that they're not immigrants, doesn't matter that there's no evidence of a crime, ICE will still lock 'em up for months until they can afford -- based on prison wages of $1/day -- to purchase the evidence of their own innocence back from the government!

    (see page 20 and/or citation 88: https://www.amnestyusa.org/reports/usa-jailed-without-justice/) [amnestyusa.org]

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday May 02 2019, @08:48PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday May 02 2019, @08:48PM (#838109)

    sometimes these "detailed illegals" are native-born US citizens who never even stepped foot outside of our country

    That's law enforcement all over: the power of arrest. They're not judging you, they're not executing sentence, but they can arrest, transport and hold you for 48 hours with the flimsiest of excuses. In ICE situations they can detain for much longer - their only incentive to cut you loose being the cost of holding you, or, if you're fortunate enough to have friends of some means on the outside, to get those friends off their backs.

    Other than our "big stick" military, ICE is my biggest embarrassment as a US citizen.

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