{"id":38530,"date":"2019-07-11T10:44:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T15:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38530"},"modified":"2019-07-11T10:44:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T15:44:48","slug":"usa-today-customs-officers-barred-from-randomly-checking-papers-on-domestic-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38530","title":{"rendered":"USA Today: Customs officers barred from randomly checking papers on domestic flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2019\/07\/11\/customs-officers-cannot-randomly-check-papers-domestic-flights\/1700254001\/\">Customs officers barred from randomly checking papers on domestic flights<\/a> by Alan Gomez:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Federal immigration officials agreed to a court settlement late Wednesday that prohibits them from randomly checking the papers of passengers on domestic flights, ending a two-year lawsuit that was filed after Customs officers did just that on a flight from San Francisco to New York City.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, domestic passengers on a Delta Airlines flight arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airport were met by Customs officers who were looking for a fugitive. All passengers were asked to show their identification upon deplaning, which led to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of nine passengers claiming a violation of the passengers&#8217; Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today: Customs officers barred from randomly checking papers on domestic flights by Alan Gomez:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-checkpoints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38531,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38530\/revisions\/38531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}