Archive for the ‘Constitutional Rights’ Category

ACLU Requests Records Relating to Laptop Searches at the Border

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Invoking Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a request before the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seeking records regarding its authority to search the laptops and other electronic devices of travelers without suspicion of wrongdoing. In July 2008, CBP issued its “Policy Regarding ...

Case Against Border Patrol Agents in Infant Deportation Case Moves Forward

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

The Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans has ruled that Monica Castro of Corpus Christi should be given one more chance to show that border patrol agents violated her daughter’s constitutional rights, when they allowed the infant’s father to keep her while he was being deported out ...