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Related: About this forumCAIR-Michigan sues FBI, Customs over alleged 'invasive religious questioning'
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120413/METRO/204130380/1409/metro/CAIR-Michigan-sues-FBI-Customs-over-alleged-invasive-religious-questioning-BY ORALANDAR BRAND-WILLIAMS
APRIL 13, 2012 AT 12:17 PM
Detroit The local Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Michigan) has filed a lawsuit against the FBI and the Customs Border Patrol agencies for alleged "invasive religious questioning" and "prolonged detention" of Muslims at the U.S.-Canada border.
The line of questioning of Muslims reportedly included how many times a day they pray and who else prays in their mosques, according to CAIR-Michigan officials.
"Invasive religious questioning of American citizens without evidence of criminal activity is not only an affront to the Constitution but is also a waste of taxpayers' dollars," said CAIR-MI Executive Director Dawud Walid.
At a news conference Friday in front of the U.S. Eastern District courthouse on West Lafayette Boulevard downtown, Walid was joined by two plaintiffs in the case and other Muslim civil rights attorneys and an immigration activist.
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longship
(40,416 posts)Especially Dearborn, Henry Ford's town, which in the sixties Mayor Orville Hubbard successfully kept lily white. Ditto their private park, Camp Dearborn.
Kind of ironic that Dearborn is today precisely what Hubbard would have probably hated.
Concerning this case, it is apparent that the boarder guards are violating people's religious rights. I hope the government loses this one. In the US, the government doesn't have the right to question a citizen's religious practices.
Those boarder guards need to read the Constitution.
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)The geeks learned this lesson recently as well.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)While there are rules, I think constitutional rights still apply.
Who are the geeks?
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)The geek issues revolve around the confiscation and later return of laptops and other electronic media. There are no protections against any level of search when crossing the border. Few constitutional protections still apply. I will add some link on this later tonight.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/mcgill-students-run-in-with-us-border-agents-prompts-lawsuit/article2395449/
Then there is the David House case.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/03/29/2334220/judge-allows-bradley-manning-supporter-to-sue-government-over-border-search
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002497762
Here are some of the geek ones...
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/04/border-agents-c/
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Protect_Your_Data_During_U.S._Border_Searches
There is some legal push back on the TSA abuses
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/06/10/198234/federal-judge-limits-dhs-laptop-border-searches
Not everyone approves of this:
http://www.freep.com/article/20120224/NEWS05/202240343/Treatment-of-Latinos-Arabs-at-U-S-Canada-border-is-focus-of-forum
Its not just the US doing it:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/11/26/bc-amy-goodman-border-incident.html
When crossing a border, your rights against search and seizure are basically gone. Interrogation less clear, but they can delay you damn near as long as they want, even your home country. The TSA under the anti-terror label is doing things we would have never seen previously.
2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)I can almost see a smirk while I read post 2.
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)You might read some of the links I posted. International borders bring with them a whole new set of rules.