People care about constitutional rights when it suits their politics, but unreasonable searches at the border have been standard for decades, under multiple administrations from both parties.
> Please, imagine it is your own head that is the target of, in your own words, "the goon squad to crack heads".
> What's happening today in the USA can happen anywhere, including where you live.
As an immigrant I don't have any rights, I can't even vote. Like it or not, that's part of the tradeoff.
But being realistic, I feel a lot safer, in part because Japan has quite strict immigration enforcement. It doesn't (yet, touch wood) have the US' dramatic polarisation and two-party split; rather there is a strong social consensus and a strong rule of law. And having seen how much crime and antisocial behaviour many of my fellow immigrants are responsible for, I'd far rather have that than the alternative. Yes, I don't want to be on the end of the riot squad getting sent in. But I think the best way to avoid that is to not get to the state of affairs where it makes sense to send in the riot squad.
That's the first I've heard of it. Everyone else is saying it covers everyone in the USA, including the courts who ruled that kicking people out for blogging was unconstitutional and ordering the release of the people the US government had arrested: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.564...
and: https://time.com/7284578/judge-orders-release-of-rumeysa-ozt...
But again, as you've not answered the "Even when it's your own head?" part, I remind you that you earlier wrote:
> I'm an immigrant and a minority myself, not that people like you ever actually care about supporting people like me.
I had assumed you were living in the USA, until checking your github account, so now I assume you're in Japan.
Please, imagine it is your own head that is the target of, in your own words, "the goon squad to crack heads".
What's happening today in the USA can happen anywhere, including where you live. (And where I live, but around here you can trip and fall over Stolperstein to be reminded of that latter part).