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		tptacek on Nov 4, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: EPIC Lawsuit to Suspend Deployment of Body Scanner... Nationality may be irrelevant, but a US border setting certainly is not. As a rule of thumb: you have drastically diminished rights at the US border.

jrockway on Nov 5, 2010 [–]

Not really. If they arrest you, you still have to be arraigned within 24 hours and have to be given a speedy jury trial.

It's really only the search-and-seizure business that does not apply. They think.

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