I think you must be talking about another situation than the US, can you explain? The us border patrol can do this to citizens and non-citizens, and they assert their right to do it to anyone within 100 miles of the border, which is much more than half the us population. I don't want this for noncitizens crossing the border either. One reason for that is I don't want this to happen to me either.

During the bush 2 administration, they were harassing people traveling to the us who were making documentaries about the us in the iraq war. This is just a convenient way for them to invade the lives of privacy of people coming through the border.

The previous poster was talking about non-citizens and that's what I responded to. Non-citizens by definition don't have the same rights.

I never said I supported this but just explained what would happen in the original scenario and that this isn't new policy. Anyways I've given up trying to deal with the irrational and emotional behavior on HN when it comes to political topics.