{"id":21698,"date":"2019-07-10T14:18:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T18:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=21698"},"modified":"2019-07-10T14:18:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T18:18:35","slug":"npr-illegal-aliens-have-legal-right-not-to-get-caught-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/07\/10\/npr-illegal-aliens-have-legal-right-not-to-get-caught-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR: Illegal Aliens Have Legal Right Not to Get Caught"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recently, there have been a number of stories<\/a> in the mainstream media falsely claiming<\/a> that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has violated illegal aliens\u2019 civil rights by using standard law enforcement techniques to locate immigration violators. National Public Radio<\/a> (NPR) has now jumped on the bandwagon decrying ICE use of facial recognition technology to scan state driver\u2019s license databases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to NPR, ICE is \u201cpushing\nthe envelope to enforce immigration laws.\u201d NPR quotes Priscilla Gomez of\nMijente, a radical organization dedicated to abolishing ICE, who says, \u201cThere’s\nfew guidelines to regulate what technologies are being used [by ICE]and how.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But neither NPR nor Mijente cite\nany rules, regulations or statutes that ICE might be violating. Why? Because\ntheir claims are totally baseless and utterly false.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To begin with, the Constitution and\nthe Bill of Rights furnish adequate guidelines for the use of emerging law\nenforcement technology. As two centuries of Fourth Amendment search and seizure\njurisprudence demonstrate, our courts have proven remarkably adept at applying\ncivil rights principles to such advances as the telephone, personal computers\nand cell phones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, courts throughout the United States have already addressed this issue, repeatedly finding that drivers have no reasonable expectation of privacy<\/a> in their vehicle registration or driver\u2019s license information. As the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit noted in U.S. v. Ellison<\/a><\/em>, \u201cThe very purpose of a license plate number, like that of a Vehicle Identification Number, is to provide identifying information to law enforcement officials and others.\u201d Therefore, computer checks of vehicle registration information do not violate the Fourth Amendment, or any other prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photos on driver\u2019s licenses serve\nthe same purpose. They permit law enforcement and other government officials to\nidentify drivers. And, since there isn\u2019t any legally protected privacy interest\nassociated with such information, government agencies don\u2019t need a warrant or a\nsubpoena to access it. That\u2019s why checking DMV databases is a standard tactic\nwhenever law enforcement agencies are searching for fugitives from justice. ICE\nisn\u2019t \u201cpushing the envelope,\u201d it\u2019s just protecting our public safety and national\nsecurity with tools that are both legal and effective. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in a piece filled with absurd contentions, the most bizarre comes from Alvaro Bedoya<\/a>, founding director of Georgetown Law\u2019s Center on Privacy and Technology. He asserts that allowing ICE to use public information to find law-breakers, \u201cbetrays the trust of undocumented immigrants who signed up for driver\u2019s licenses in good faith.\u201d\u00a0 You read that correctly. A professor at one of America\u2019s elite law schools, thinks that illegal aliens have a fundamental right to enlist state governments in helping them hide their immigration transgressions from the federal government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reality is that organizations like NPR, Mijente and the Center on Privacy and Technology simply don\u2019t like immigration enforcement<\/a> of any kind. But they can produce no legal or procedural arguments that support such a radical stance. So they lie<\/a> to the public in order to create the false impression that ICE is somehow victimizing immigration-law-breakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, there have been a number of stories in the mainstream media falsely claiming that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has violated illegal aliens\u2019 civil rights by using standard law enforcement techniques to locate immigration violators. National Public Radio (NPR) has now jumped on the bandwagon decrying ICE use of facial recognition technology to<\/p>\n

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