#freedom

State legislation to attempt to protect privacy forthcoming hopefully.

A report last month out of the University of Washington found several local police departments authorized U.S. Border Patrol to use their license plate reader databases. And in other cases, Border Patrol had backdoor access without express permission. In some instances, police conducted searches on behalf of the federal agency. By Worries extend beyond immigration.

Authorities in Texas this year searched thousands of the cameras, as far as Washington state and Illinois, in their search for a woman believed to have had a self-administered abortion.

Innocent until proven guilty. Unless you have a race, speak Spanish, speak with an accent, or your job involves physical labor.

In Los Angeles, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling has temporarily allowed immigration enforcement agents operating in that city to use race as one of the reasons for a stop. They can also use people speaking Spanish, accented English, and working certain physical labor jobs to guess if someone is in the country without legal status.

Like the post-9/11 panic, we are sure to see overzealous enforcement, false arrests, mistaken identities, unlawful confinement, misuse of the military, and the creation of a secret force. All are happening right now —up to and including arrests without charges, as I’ve reported — despite astonishingly little coverage by the major media.

Just about the only thing missing from this remastered war on terrorism is a drone assassination campaign; though the strikes on Venezuelan boats are close enough.