“‘Enemy Territory’: Immigration Enforcement in the US-Mexico Borderlands” (August 2014)
“In 2008, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) described the US border as a ‘Constitution-Free Zone,’ referring to a 100-mile wide strip of territory around the ‘external boundary’ of the nation within which Fourth Amendment protections against random and arbitrary stops and searches by law-enforcement officials do not apply. According to the ACLU, the 197. لعبة المتاهة 4 million people residing in this zone—roughly two-thirds of the US population—are subject to ‘administrative’ stops by the Border Patrol or other federal authorities for the purpose of guarding the nation’s borders from security threats (ACLU 2008b). The inland checkpoints where the Border Patrol conducts ‘administrative’ stops and searches are mostly clustered near the southwest borderlands of California, Arizona, and Texas, but are also found along the northern border in Washington state and could, in principle, appear anywhere else along US land or coastal borders (ACLU 2008a)…”
