WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security has effectively abolished the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable search and seizure within 100 miles of the border, contends the ACLU. An executive summary of a still-secret DHS report finished five years ago contends that it would be “operationally harmful” to recognize that federal agents must follow the “reasonable suspicion” standard to search electronic devices such as laptops, cellphones, and cameras of people traveling within the United States anywhere within 100 miles of an international border or a coastline. The ACLU points out that this zone would include “the entire populations of Florida, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Washington, DC, and Michigan,” as well as the residents of the country’s five most populous cities – New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Philadelphia. worldtruth.tv/homeland-security-approves-seizure-of-cell-phones-and-laptops-within-100-miles-of-border-report-remains-secret/
Posted on: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 23:11:46 +0000
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