{"id":4665,"date":"2019-03-09T22:09:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T04:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicreborn.com\/?p=4665"},"modified":"2019-03-09T22:09:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T04:09:12","slug":"defending-the-u-s-border-shouldnt-require-violating-the-rights-of-u-s-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/republicreborn.com\/2019\/03\/09\/defending-the-u-s-border-shouldnt-require-violating-the-rights-of-u-s-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending the U.S. border shouldn&#8217;t require violating the rights of U.S. citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is a Police State really the only option for effective border security? That, apparently, is the operating assumption at the heart of current US border policy, where the Fourth Amendment is non-existent throughout the 100-mile wide area encircling the US. Border patrol operates with impunity, dragging US citizens out of their cars for searches and seizures that would be illegal in a free country, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/in-horrifying-detail-women-accuse-us-customs-officers-of-invasive-body-searches\/2018\/08\/18\/ad7b7d82-9b38-11e8-8d5e-c6c594024954_story.html\" xlink=\"href\">performing unnecessary body cavity searches which amount to rape by cop.<\/a>\u00a0The abuse is so widespread that the federal government regularly intervenes to pay <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/may\/01\/border-patrol-violence-us-paid-60m-to-cover-claims-against-the-agency\" xlink=\"href\">abuse settlements<\/a> against the agency, $60 million as of last May.<\/p>\n<p>The logic of border security follows the logic of the &#8216;War on Terror&#8217;: the only way to protect you is to strip you of your rights, while spending hundreds of billions of dollars in the process.<\/p>\n<p>The borderlands have long been a playground and testing ground for surveillance technology, dry-running new equipment before sending it inland to law enforcement across the country.<\/p>\n<p>What truly protects us is the security of our rights<em> from government<\/em>, not a militarized border patrolled by thugs. The real crisis that almost no one pays attention to is the fact that the border is a Constitution-free zone, or the simple truth that no amount of &#8220;security&#8221; is worth the loss of liberty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is a Police State really the only option for effective border security? That, apparently, is the operating assumption at the heart of current US border policy, where the Fourth Amendment is non-existent throughout the 100-mile wide area encircling the US. Border patrol operates with impunity,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/republicreborn.com\/2019\/03\/09\/defending-the-u-s-border-shouldnt-require-violating-the-rights-of-u-s-citizens\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Defending the U.S. border shouldn&#8217;t require violating the rights of U.S. citizens<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/republicreborn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/republicreborn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/republicreborn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicreborn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicreborn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/republicreborn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4666,"href":"https:\/\/republicreborn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions\/4666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/republicreborn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicreborn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicreborn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}