In the 127 years since the Supreme Court first recognized the border-search exception, it has required a showing of reasonable suspicion for a border search in only one case.
The question was whether a laptop computer that was seized at the border and subsequently searched two days later at a forensic lab 170 miles away would fall within the border search doctrine.
Rather, we continue to scrutinize searches and seizures effectuated under the longstanding border search power on a case-by-case basis to determine whether the manner of the search and seizure was so egregious as to render it unreasonable.
While the Supreme Court has recognized three exceptions to the border search doctrine (which may require a heightened suspicion for more detailed or delayed searches), the general rule is that whatever you carry with you into the U.S. you can expect to be searched and that you have tacitly agreed to such a search.
Manufacturers who went south of the border in search of cheap labor now are heading across the Pacific, putting a crimp in Mexico's growth prospects.
Given the very human desire to be fed and clothed, Mexicans have often illegally crossed the U.S. border in search of the very work that would allow them to eat.
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So we are left with 11 million more on welfare while these companies search outside our border for more workers.
At the border, whether the government intends to search a wallet or an 18-wheeler, the analysis is the same: no suspicion is required.
American agents notified Mexican authorities to search their side of the border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement last December.
On Thursday China said that it granted its border patrol police the power to board and search ships in the area.
Backers hope they will prove a cheaper alternative to helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft for tasks as varied as power and pipeline inspection, mapping, security, border surveillance, research, filming, fire fighting, search and rescue and delivering supplies.
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The normal rules of search and seizure do not apply at a border crossing, so you may wish to re-think corporate policies if you or your employees routinely carry sensitive, proprietary, or even classified information when you travel.
Normal Fourth Amendment search and seizure provisions do not apply at the border.
As the search for any remaining gunmen continues, Egypt has closed its Rafah border crossing with Gaza, our Cairo correspondent Yolande Knell reports.
In another case in Texas, an American woman crossing the border in Brownsville in late 2012 was forcibly thrown on the ground and injured by an agent during a search.
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