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Gps Tracking At The Border: A Mistaken Expectation Or A Chilling Reality, Kimberly Shi
Gps Tracking At The Border: A Mistaken Expectation Or A Chilling Reality, Kimberly Shi
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
In 2018, Matthew C. Allen, the Assistant Director for the Domestic Operations Division within the United States Department of Homeland Security, filed a declaration in United States v. Ignjatov describing a departmental policy allowing for the installation of a “GPS tracking device on a vehicle at the United States border without a warrant or individualized suspicion,” limited “to 48 hours.” While the Border Search Doctrine, which predates the Fourth Amendment, deems that no warrant is necessary at the border for most searches and seizures because of the government’s inherent power to control who or what comes within a nation’s borders, …