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[–] 106 points 9 months ago (20 children)

Without a warrant, CBP wasn't entitled to anything on his phone and they can go fuck themselves.

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  • [–] 58 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    It's cute that you think there are still laws in the US.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    They have to charge him with something.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Do they though? Someone should tell all the people in literal concentration camps after receiving no due process

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I have a friend in Florida. They have a guy that runs a business and does all their house repairs, fells trees, yada yada. His inlaws turned him in for being illegal (he's not) He had his paperwork with him and they still shipped him off to Alligator Alcatraz. His wife hired a lawyer and had to do all kinds of crap to get him back out... on bail... because his mother-in-law called him an illegal.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    That increasingly means nothing. Remember that judge who was sending kids to reform camps for kickbacks? Part of that scheme was they literally made up charges. If the system says it's a charge and you need to be punished then that's what's going to happen. Juries aren't even a thing until you get to major felonies anymore so it's just whatever the judge lets the prosecutor get away with.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    If it was at a point of entry CBP can search electronic devices without a warrant or suspicion, for a brief time (up to 5 days) without probable cause, under the "border search exception".

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  • [–] 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    A lot of those border exceptions need to be burnt in a fire, like that one, and the whole "you have no civil rights within 100 miles of a point of entry. btw airports count, so almost no where is free from your rights legally being abused kthnxbai"

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    This is truth. You are a US citizen, and your rights apply anywhere if the authority is a us citizen. What stops them from detaining you, driving you to the border and then performing illegal searches. Nothing. Just because I went on vacation doesn't mean I forfeited my constitutional rights.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    I was going to say something along the lines of being charged with anything but your statement is way better and more importantly more accurate.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I wasn’t sure if that applies to non-citizens.

    Personally, I think it should, but laws aren’t always just.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago

    Rights must apply to all persons in the US. Or else the government may assign you to the non rights group at it's discretion. As an example, you're a citizen. The government says you are not. You try to go to court to prove it, but oops you don't have that right. Your family opens a court case, but they either get ruled to not have standing or they get swiftly assigned to the non rights group as well.

    Nobody has Rights until Everyone has Rights.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    According to the Constitution, almost all rights apply equally to citizens and non-citizens. The term used in the Constitution is "persons," not "citizens." The Supreme Court has eroded some of those rights over time, though.

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