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it's not just a device problem, the whole constitution is suspended 100 miles around the entire border of the US, we have no rights

(look at FLORIDA, the entire state!)

* https://www.wired.com/2008/10/aclu-assails-10/

* https://www.aclu.org/documents/know-your-rights-100-mile-bor...

* https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/HTML/R46601...



And the "border" in this case includes a 100 mile circle around any international airport


It does not, this is not in the law. This is a false misunderstanding that somehow keeps getting propagated. A few civil rights people have looked into it and don’t see it as a likely problem, and there haven’t been cases where the government was able to use this argument.




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