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Then tell people why you think so. What real value do you think is achieved by allowing CBP to arbitrarily poke around cell phones being brought into the country that are not at all hidden?

How much liberty from unreasonable search and seizure do we have to endure for the infinitesimal possibility that some good will come from these searches, you know, just like all the good that comes of TSA searches (I know for a fact I've taken pocket knives and multitools and hammers through airport security on multiple occasions).

Yes, you can argue that, legally, at the border, there are different standards for reasonability and a requirement thereof. But I'd like to hear a cogent argument for why that is, and how that plays into the need for such a thing.



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