Gingrich jokes about tracking immigrants using mail services (It's no joke: We already do it!)

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Sorry if my subject line spoils the surprise, but the headline is misleading.

Gingrich jokes about tracking immigrants using mail services
By Rose Arce, CNN
updated 10:24 AM EST, Sat February 11, 2012

(CNN) -- GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich got a good laugh from his audience of conservatives Friday when he ribbed the U.S. government for not using mail services, such as FedEx, to track down the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the nation.

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In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, two Guatemalans allege that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were guilty of unreasonable search and seizure, and racial profiling when they arrested Guatemalan nationals picking up a package at a FedEx facility in Florida.

The package contained a passport mailed to one of them by the Guatemalan government in the type of sting Gingrich was jokingly suggesting.

A short time ago this morning, I posted a story about how DHS will be checking tweets and Facebook for criticism of DHS.

God, I miss the Fourth Amendment (among other Constitutional provisions).