ACLU Continue to Fight Border Control
Posted on October 23, 2008
By Barry Steinhardt, Director, ACLU Technology & Liberty Program
“You’re driving along a remote, dusty road, when suddenly you come upon a border patrol checkpoint. There, agents demand to see your identity papers, and search your car. You are taken by surprise, because you know you haven’t wandered across the Texas-Mexico border. In fact, you’re quite sure of that, because you’re driving through rural Wisconsin countryside west of Green Bay. Even the Canadian border is more than 90 miles away.
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This scene is not as far-fetched as you might want to believe. The government is turning vast swaths of our country into a “Constitution-Free Zone” in which U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is allowed to exercise extraordinary authority that would not normally be permitted under the Constitution. The government says that “the border” — where there is a longstanding view that the Constitution does not fully apply — actually stretches 100 miles inland from the nation’s “external boundary.” And increasingly, we are seeing DHS vigorously utilize that authority.”
I’ll let Giovanni take it from here.
Ok, now that you have heard from the anti-American ACLU point of view, now it’s time to listen to reason and logic. As an American that worries about terrorists and illegals sneaking into our country, I think this is a fantastic idea!
There are many places on our border that are very difficult to station a border guard at. Unfortunately, there are literally millions of places for people to sneak across our borders. I actually know where some of these places are, but unlike some morons, I’m not going to publicly announce where they are. Anyway, let me continue on to why this is such a great idea… Many of those that sneak into our country are not completely stupid, so they cross at a very secretive spot on our border and avoid our main highways until they are deep into U.S. territory. Once they think they have gone around our border patrol they then use our roads and highways at will, and then melt into the population. By allowing the border patrol to set up a secondary checkpoint deeper into U.S. soil, they stand a better chance of catching those that went around the first line of defense, at our borders.
Read Giovanni’s entire excellent article on this at Giovanni’s World.
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Why is American tax dollars funding this communist organization?
Are Americans suicidal?
Or is Noam Chomsky right that whoever controls the media also controls the bewildered herds. (ó¿ò)