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ACLU Assails 100-Mile Border Zone as 'Constitution-Free'

By Ryan Singel, Kevin Poulsen, Sarah Lai Stirland, Kim Zetter, and David Kravets

Government agents should not have the right to stop and question Americans anywhere without suspicion within 100 miles of the border, the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday, pointing attention to the little known power of the federal government to set up immigration checkpoints far from the nation's border lines. The government has long been able to search people entering and exiting the country without need to say why, which is known as the border search exception of the Fourth read more

Full post as published by Threat Level on October 22, 2008 (boomark / email).