Nearly every thread I see about border searches has someone in it who mistakenly thinks the government’s position is that the Constitution doesn’t apply because you haven’t crossed the border yet. That isn’t their position:
Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸That isn’t what they are claiming. The argument is that the 4th Amendment only prohibits “unreasonable” searches, and searches at the border are “presumptively reasonable” due to long standing historical practice of searching bags at places like Castle Garden.