Feds undermine Stockton California mayor

Writes Boing-Boing:

"...law enforcement agencies coordinate with border agents to identify people whose data they'd like to steal, but against whom there is not enough evidence for a warrant."

“As I was being searched at the airport, there was a Latino couple to my left, and an Asian couple to my right also being aggressively searched. I briefly had to remind myself that this was not North Korea or Nazi Germany. This is the land of the Free.” said Silva in his statement.

According to staff writer Roger Phillips of the Stockton Record:

“It was not a random stop,” one source said of Silva’s detention by federal agents as he returned to the United States after a trip with other mayors to China. Both sources spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Silva has filed a motion for the return of his devices, but it will take at least 2 weeks for it to reach the bench and DHS is not expected to eagerly return the property they stole from him. Phillips notes that:

Two years ago, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that for law enforcement to conduct a forensic examination of a returning international traveler’s computer, it must show a “reasonable suspicion, a modest requirement in light of the Fourth Amendment.”

Silva claims in his statement that agents “were not willing or able to produce a search warrant or any court documents suggesting they had a legal right to take my property.”

In the top photo, the adventurous mayor is seen sleeping in a cardboard box under the freeway in an attempt to understand the plight of the homeless. We know from experience the feds are angered when you Occupy, or display the plight of Obamaville. Silva plans to run for re-election in 2016.

David Roknich,

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