Posted on 07/21/2016 12:36:59 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Homeland Security under the Obama Administration.
There are signs posted at the entrances to all Federal ports. Upon leaving or entering the United States all persons and conveyances are subject to search. If you don’t want to be searched do not set foot on Federal port property. I am not saying that is good or bad. Plan ahead.
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Maria Abi-HabibVerified account @Abihabib Mideast reporter - Wall Street Journal. Focused on ISIS, al Qaeda
Since the WSJ has long been open borders and endless wars zealots (which is another way of condoning all the rapes, murders, soldiers that have died and been maimed), I have little sympathy for their complaining.
The WSJ is a RINO news outfit that gives Republicans a pass on their dereliction of duty and all but celebrated and helped enable obama’s fundamental transformation.
They were instrumental in creating this situation they now claim to be horrified of.
Are there ANY editors who actually review the reports by their journalists? This reads like LA airport is actually on the border of America and Mexico.
This is absolutely accurate. Border Patrol and Customs can confiscate almost anything and search it, including phones, computers and any other electronic devices without a warrant. The 4th amendment does not apply at the border. If you have anything sensitive on your electronic devices, DON’T travel outside the country with them.
Cheap headset ,, should be GREEN.
However, as a US citizen I disagree that Congress has the authority to remove my 4th Amendment rights simply because I’m passing through said port. My rights are inherent in my person and not subject to my geographic location.
PROFILE PROFILE PROFILE. I don't care if it is politically incorrect and offends someones poor little feelings. I care about American lives.
LA Airport is a “port of entry” but I guess someone complaining about immigration control would call it ‘crossing a border’.
Sounds to me, that LA was/is on heightened security for a specific profile. And flying into the US as a dual-citizen from Lebanon would probably raise a higher flag than say, coming in from Peru - was she traveling on a US or Lebanese passport? They probably should have held off wanting to confiscate the phones until they’d verified her ID, tho.
For many of us, the cellular phone we have is the ONLY phone we have. For the DHS to seize these devices when we are traveling is to cripple our means of communications completely.
Since when do our RIGHTS end because DHS says they don't exist? Since when does a statute trump a Constitutional RIGHT? What part of the 4th Amendment do you fail to grasp?
Does the power of the DHS extend across the border when I leave?
Obviously, the DHS has no jurisdictional authority on the other side of the border.
How then does their power to exceed the Constitution work on THIS side of the border???? Is there a magical buffer of non-Constitutionality authority near the border? How wide is this buffer zone? Is it one-tenth of an inch wide, one inch, one foot, one mile, what? Apparently it extends all the way to Los Angeles Air Port. Does it extend all the way to, say, Denver? How about Kansas City?
Yah, well maybe you “moderate” Muslim surnamed people should speak out against radical Islam. Then you might not be subject to profiling. As it stands, ALL Muslims are potential terrorists.
Her name seems to indicate that she is a muckin’ Fuslim, so they were just doing their job.
Hmmm...these rules sound like IRS rules ie ‘We’re doing it because we can.’
Two tries at the password and then the device self-destructs.
Will become the hottest selling feature in laptops and smart phones, I’m tellin’ ya....
No expectation of privacy at the border. One of the 4th amendment warrant exceptions.
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