{"id":6436,"date":"2011-12-19T11:13:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T11:13:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T11:13:18","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6436","title":{"rendered":"Think Progress: &#8220;Eighth Circuit Embraces Dangerous Legal Claim Endangering Undocumented Immigrants\u2019 Fourth Amendment Rights&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think Progress: <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2011\/12\/19\/391693\/eighth-circuit-embraces-dangerous-legal-claim-endangering-undocumented-immigrants-fourth-amendment-rights\/\">Eighth Circuit Embraces Dangerous Legal Claim Endangering Undocumented Immigrants\u2019 Fourth Amendment Rights<\/a> by Ian Millhiser:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last June, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held, wrongly, that the Second Amendment <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2011\/06\/15\/245270\/fifth-hates-on-fourth\/\">does not apply to undocumented immigrants<\/a>. Last week, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca8.uscourts.gov\/opndir\/11\/12\/111550P.pdf\">single paragraph order<\/a>, the Eighth Circuit agreed. As ThinkProgress explained when the Fifth Circuit opinion was handed down, this decision isn\u2019t just wrong, it is disastrously so. Indeed, if allowed to stand, it could strip all undocumented immigrants of their constitutional right to be <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2011\/06\/15\/245270\/fifth-hates-on-fourth\/\">free from unlawful searches and seizures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Several constitutional provisions refer to rights that belong to \u201cthe people.\u201d The Second Amendment refers to \u201cthe <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution\">right of the people<\/a> to keep and bear Arms.\u201d And the Fourth Amendment provides that \u201c[t]he <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution\">right of the people<\/a> to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.\u201d According to the Fifth Circuit\u2019s reasoning, which was embraced last week by the Eighth Circuit, undocumented immigrants enjoy neither right because they are not part of \u201cthe people\u201d: &#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6436\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6436","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}