Why is Border Patrol Exempt from the Fourth Amendment? with Todd Miller

Factually! with Adam Conover

Headgum

Comedy

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

No feature of the American landscape is more absurd than the border. It cuts across natural landscapes, is highly militarized, and possesses the largest law enforcement agency in America. Why? Journalist and Author Todd Miller joins Adam to explain why the heck Border Patrol got involved with the BLM protests last June, what “check point trauma” means, and why we need to build solidarity, rather than division with the people who share the continent with us. Todd Miller’s book - Build Bridges Not Walls - is out at the end of March, and can be pre-ordered at citylights.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This is a Headgun Podcast.
0:04.0	I don't know the truth.
0:08.0	I don't know the way.
0:10.0	I don't know what to think.
0:13.0	I don't know what to say.
0:16.0	Yeah, that got to go.
0:19.0	Yeah, that's okay.
0:22.0	I don't know anything.
0:28.0	Hello, everyone.
0:29.0	Welcome to Factually.
0:30.0	I'm Adam Connover.
0:32.0	You know, as Americans, we treasure our constitutional rights.
0:35.8	We know that the government can't do anything to interfere with our religion or how we choose
0:39.6	to express it.
0:40.6	We know that if a soldier wants to quarter themselves in our goddamn attic, we can
0:44.4	tell him to buzz off.
0:46.2	And we know that we have the right to freedom of speech, to protest for whatever the heck
0:49.8	it is we believe, to sound off in the comments around this great land.
0:54.1	We know about these rights.
0:56.0	And we also believe that the government can't take our stuff or rifle through it without
1:00.6	a warrant.
1:01.6	That's the Fourth Amendment which protects us against unreasonable searches and seizures.
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