Now ICE and Border Patrol Want to Spy On You Too: New at Reason

All wars begin to protect insiders from outside threats and end up targeting the very insiders they are seeking to protect. Indeed, as libertarian scholar Robert Higgs has documented, every major war involving America abroad has led to the death and destruction of civil liberties of Americans at home.

And so it is with the War on Immigration where in a bid to purge the country of unauthorized migrants, federal immigration authorities are amassing ever more powers. They already have obtained the authority to erect checkpoints and conduct unconstitutional searches of anyone within the 100-mile Constitution-free zone adjacent to the border. Now they want to combine their awesome enforcement powers with NSA’s awesome mass surveillance powers to ferret out and deport unwanted aliens, notes Reason Foundation Senior Analyst Shikha Dalmia.

This won’t just erode the liberties just of foreigners but Americans as well. ICE and border patrol gaining such Big Brother snooping powers should scare the bejeezus out of every man, woman and child in America.

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