3091

FTFY.

3092

CBP using border searches to target politics.

3093

It will be very good if that practice is ruled unconstitutional.

3094

“the border zone is home to 65.3 percent of the entire U.S. population, and around 75 percent of the U.S. Hispanic population […] This zone, which hugs the entire edge of the United States and runs 100 air miles inside, includes some of the densest cities—New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago. It also includes all of Michigan and Florida, and half of Ohio and Pennsylvania”

3095

On the subject of the current humanitarian crisis at the southern US land border, everyone should give a listen to the Fresh Air interview with a former editor from Politico that aired tonight:

3096

I wonder if we can bring back the term Silvershirts?

3097
3098

I hope this guys status with the union protects him, brave of him to come forward. Fuck Trump

3099

Rights? Where we’re going we don’t need Rights.

3100

How do they decide on the destination for someone’s deportation? Do they just make a guess based on their skin color and accent?

3101

They’d have to be doing that considering their shipping out US citizens in this mess. There should be jail time for anyone who doesn’t give a citizen due process. It’s so damn illegal but oh right, we live in a Republican age where no one is accountable for anything anymore.

3102

Qualified Immunity.
No one can expect law enforcement officers to know what any rights or laws are.

3103

Due process isn’t just for citizens.

3104

I understand that, but if they’re taking a US citizen and just dumping them in some random country they think they are linked to, that is an easily avoidable problem and a drastic, unacceptable case. We certainly, as a country, have the capabilities of identifying US citizens. We know they’ve done this so far and the consequence seems to be… zero for doing it.

3105

Once you remove due process from the equation, ICE can do literally anything it wants, to literally anyone.

If someone thinks this will only apply to illegal immigrants, they need to consider the fact that if ICE thinks they’re an illegal immigrant, they can deport them… and they don’t need to give them a day in court to prove otherwise.

That’s the whole point of due process. It’s the foundation of the rule of law.

3106

It’s perfectly fine for me to take issue with the known cases of US citizens being dumped in other countries. This does not mean I don’t care about the other cases.

This is not an either or scenario.

3107

DHS has already suspended due process for both CBP and ICE and it is being used for illegal purposes - reposting:

one Black Lives Matter activist was pulled out of an airport line to be interrogated over his civil rights work. Leaked documents show that the federal government created a database of dossiers on other activists, lawyers and journalists as well. As a result, American journalists and lawyers working along the US-Mexico border have been stopped on both sides and had devices searched, visas revoked, passports flagged and entry denied. All apparently without being suspected of a crime. That’s not about protecting the US from terrorists. That’s about intimidating critics and keeping politically embarrassing stories out of the news.

In light of these facts, it would be naive to suggest that warrantless device searches at the border are actually border searches in any meaningful sense. These searches and what they collect are not limited to the device, to the traveler, to the border or even to the country. They are not a means of preventing dangerous persons from entering the US, but of propping up the ever-expanding US surveillance state. And comprehensive surveillance has broad implications for free speech, for privacy and, as one hack of a border agency database shows, for security.

There is zero accountability for these and other actions, which gives rise to even greater abuses.

3108

I think he was agreeing with you while also pointing out that it’s even worse.

3109

Oh. Well in that case. I agree!

3110

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