Posted on 07/11/2014 6:09:17 AM PDT by cotton1706
Andy Beales goal was to create a photo project comparing the fence between the U.S. and Mexico and the wall between Israel and Palestine.
On June 6, 2014, Beale arrived at the Santa Teresa border checkpoint in New Mexico with a friend to take pictures of the fence. As Beale started taking pictures, a Federal Immigration and Customers Enforcement (ICE) officer drove up and asked Beale what he was doing, and for identification. ICE agents then escorted Beale and his friend inside the immigration building, and promptly handcuffed the two of them to a bench.
For the next three hours, Beale and his friend waited as ICE officers told them, Theyre on their way, they want to question you.
Finally, an FBI agent and a Department of Homeland Security officer showed up and handed Beale a copy of federal statute 41 CFR § 102-74.420, which states:
What is the policy concerning photographs for news, advertising or commercial purposes? Except where security regulations, rules, orders, or directives apply or a Federal court order or rule prohibits it, persons entering in or on Federal property may take photographs of (a) Space occupied by a tenant agency for non-commercial purposes only with the permission of the occupying agency concerned; (b) Space occupied by a tenant agency for commercial purposes only with written permission of an authorized official of the occupying agency concerned; and (c) Building entrances, lobbies, foyers, corridors, or auditoriums for news purposes.
The government agents claimed that because Beale hoped to sell his photos, he could be charged with a felony for photographing the border fence. The agents then asked Beale to sign a consent form allowing them to search his camera. When Beale refused, he was told, Well, were going to be here for awhile then.
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You don’t think they have cell towers in El Paso, San Diego or in Arizona? iPhones, Androids, etc. do have cameras, and they link to cell towers, don’t they?
Yep, you are right...
I was stuck in thinking a camera with communications... rather than a communications device with a camera!
Just go to this link and look at the northbound traffic. That’s money headed north, and there is no will to stop it from either political party:
https://www.google.com/maps/@27.5009596,-99.5023212,470m/data=!3m1!1e
24 hours a day, 7 days a week they come north....
That’s no problem...however, I recently saw a video of some guy that sent a drone up to a fireworks display miles away and got some utterly fantastic shots. The video is viral. There was a camera he used that linked back to the internet I think and I googled the camera and it seemed really neat.....but a little too expensive for my taste at $400.
The invaders can trample the fence but Americans better not try to photograph it. Whadda country.
That would require wifi... not likely near a border fence
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Wouldn’t it queue them up and transmit when it did have a signal ... at the ICE station?
Use border to illegal cross it....get a free ride to your destination.
Photograph the border...go to jail is US citizen.
Had enough, yet?
Since 12:00 PM January 20, 2009.
Americans are the easy targets.
Eliminate the 2 DOEs as a start.
Ø is only a symptom of a greater disease. We’ll survive this pos but not what put it there.
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