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NYC_SKP

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Tue Apr 15, 2014, 12:03 AM Apr 2014

ACLU: Know Your Rights Constitutional Free Zone Map [View all]

Too important not to re-post from time to time.


Check out additional information about Constitution Free Zones here.



October 22, 2008

The problem

Normally under the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the American people are not generally subject to random and arbitrary stops and searches.

The border, however, has always been an exception. There, the longstanding view is that the normal rules do not apply. For example the authorities do not need a warrant or probable cause to conduct a “routine search.”

But what is “the border”? According to the government, it is a 100-mile wide strip that wraps around the “external boundary” of the United States.

As a result of this claimed authority, individuals who are far away from the border, American citizens traveling from one place in America to another, are being stopped and harassed in ways that our Constitution does not permit.

More at: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights-constitution-free-zone-map

And at: https://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/fact-sheet-us-constitution-free-zone
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