RE: Fucking Jack Boots
July 26, 2017 at 9:44 pm
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2017 at 9:45 pm by popeyespappy.)
(July 26, 2017 at 9:39 pm)Nymphadora Wrote:(July 26, 2017 at 9:19 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: From your quoted ACLU text.bold mine*
So according to the ACLU, SCOTUS has ruled that stopping people at these checkpoints to inquire about their citizenship is legal.
What happened to the woman in videos? She (and everyone else on the road at that time) got stopped at a checkpoint and asked about their citizenship. According to the ACLU website SCOTUS says that is legal.
Since you want to pick out a sentence in the middle of a paragraph that was part of a bulleted list of the Outdated Legal Authority and Lack of Oversight section, here is the entire paragraph, quoted below.
Quote:For example, Border Patrol, according to news reports, operates approximately 170 interior checkpoints throughout the country (the actual number in operation at any given time is not publicly known). The ACLU believes that these checkpoints amount to dragnet, suspicion-less stops that cannot be reconciled with Fourth Amendment protections. The Supreme Court has upheld the use of immigration checkpoints, but only insofar as the stops consist only of a brief and limited inquiry into residence status. Checkpoints cannot be primarily used for drug-search or general law enforcement efforts. In practice, however, Border Patrol agents often do not limit themselves to brief immigration inquiries and regularly conduct criminal investigations and illegal searches at checkpoints. The Border Patrol also frequently pulls over motorists in "roving patrol" stops, often without any suspicion that an immigration violation has occurred.
The SC may have upheld rulings, but the rest of the paragraph is key in realizing that a ruling isn't worth much if CBP agents do whatever they want anyway. Again, bold mine.
In addition, NOTHING about her stop was brief. An hour and a half is not brief and it's on tape saying a dog was brought out to search her vehicle.
So what was your point with intentionally leaving a key part of that paragraph out and misrepresenting what I posted?
But that's not what they did here is it? They stopped her at a checkpoint and asked her about her citizenship. Once again, something SCOTUS has said is legal. Even the ACLU agrees that SCOTUS says what happened to this woman is legal.
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