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I have never understood the legal doctrine by which inalienable rights suddenly become quite, well, alienable at the border. If a right is truly universal, then it should hold at the border just as well as it does anywhere else. This is one of many places where I disagree with the US Supreme Court on principle, and where I suspect that they let politics cloud their expertise.



"I have never understood the legal doctrine by which inalienable rights suddenly become quite, well, alienable at the border. "

I bet that's true for a lot of people, and may explain some of the confrontations.


In my situation the guard actually said "you have no rights here". (in Canada)




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