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The same logic suggests that all customs searches are unreasonable; after all, they could also take place in your home.


Not exactly. You aren't considering that there's a threshold to overcome. All customs searches would be unreasonable if there were a trivial way to send items without going through customs.

Invading everyone's privacy to catch a few dumb criminals (because all non-dumb criminals would have just sent their data through the internet) is a really really bad tradeoff, because the cost:benefit ratio is too high.




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