{"id":32601,"date":"2018-04-11T08:25:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T13:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32601"},"modified":"2018-04-12T15:48:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T20:48:23","slug":"cato-introducing-checkpoint-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32601","title":{"rendered":"Cato: Introducing \u201cCheckpoint: America\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cato: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/introducing-checkpoint-america\">Introducing \u201cCheckpoint: America\u201d<\/a> by Patrick G. Eddington<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today, the Cato Institute is launching a new online initiative: Checkpoint America: Monitoring the Constitution-Free Zone.<\/p>\n<p>For over 60 years, the executive branch has, through regulatory fiat, imposed a \u201cborder zone\u201d that extends as much as 100 miles into the United States. Within this area\u2013which, according to the ACLU, encompasses two-thirds of the U.S. population\u2013are a series of Soviet-style internal checkpoints run by the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Customs and Border Protection (CBP) service. The majority of these stretch across the southwestern United States from southern California to the Texas Gulf Coast. <\/p>\n<p>As outlined below, CBP agents operating these checkpoints routinely violate the constitutional rights of citizens and others who are forced to pass through them to get to work, go to the store, or make it<br \/>\nto a vacation destination in the American Southwest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cato: Introducing \u201cCheckpoint: America\u201d by Patrick G. Eddington<\/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-32601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-checkpoints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32613,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32601\/revisions\/32613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}