Under US Supreme Court case law, there is a well recognized “border exception” to the 4th Amendment that permits searches without warrant of not only travelers from abroad but of anyone in areas close to the border. If you don’t like that, don’t leave the country and avoid the borders.
Uh. I think he said he was 75 miles from the border. I'm closer to the "border" now than he was. The people at the checkpoint knew this guy well; and if they weren't such sadistic goons they would just wave him through.
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Under United States Constitutional Law there is a well recognized right to travel freely, be free from arbitrary and capricious official santimonious thuggery et al.
New Age stare decisis Bolshevik rulings need not apply.
Two border patrol agents were jailed for actually shooting an actual drug smuggler actually illegally across the border from the South and somehow an American citizen traveling in plain view and with no suspicious activity somehow deserves to be beaten.
In twenty five words or less: LEAVE THE PEOPLE ALONE
The USSC also said “seperate but equal” was AOK, and that blacks were property. Not everything they rule is correct and lawful per the constitution
I am a former Customs Inspector, and you are correct. He was aware of this too, as notices are posted at the exit points that you will be searched upon re-entry.