But wait. I live near the beach and I see police cars every night come and kick people out to close down the beach after 10.
That is evidently constitutional.
Would they not be able to talk to people who arrived by boat after 12?
What if the cops suspected they were carrying dope? Are they allowed to search the boat?
Would we have to say, “They couldn’t stop a boat with a sufficiently large group of people, because that is clearly an immigration-related action the local police can’t take”.
But what if it’s human trafficking, and the people aren’t even willing passengers?
Don’t the police in that case have an obligation to protect the exploited?
Also how should we deal with a case where both people and drugs are being transported in the same panga…
