I guess I’m mistaken. Immigrants and visitors are not technically “on US soil” until they have been processed. However, but once they are on US soil, they enjoy many (most?) of the rights and privileges in the Constitution and legal code, including the 4th amendment (governs searches). So it depends on where you’re applying for a status.
It just seems odd to me that, once processed, you immediately gain rights that would be violated had the order of operations been reversed (i.e. admit first and then searched). It seems to me that if we’re considering someone for entry to the US, there may be an argument that an unreasonable search is unconstitutional, even if it happened just prior to entry.
I guess I’m mistaken. Immigrants and visitors are not technically “on US soil” until they have been processed. However, but once they are on US soil, they enjoy many (most?) of the rights and privileges in the Constitution and legal code, including the 4th amendment (governs searches). So it depends on where you’re applying for a status.
It just seems odd to me that, once processed, you immediately gain rights that would be violated had the order of operations been reversed (i.e. admit first and then searched). It seems to me that if we’re considering someone for entry to the US, there may be an argument that an unreasonable search is unconstitutional, even if it happened just prior to entry.
Again, every nation on earth treats its own citizens different from visitors. Its not weird, it’s literally why we have borders.