The president has requested broader police powers for search and seizure at the borders (which you can see will be easily extended into the US interior -- why fight terrorism only at the boarders?) and for wider use of the death penalty.

This is an atrocious power grab, and one which we should not permit our executive branch to take. Note that the terrorists come here to die -- the death penalty makes them martyrs and is not a deterrent. And, there are zero examples of how being able to search and seize more easily would have helped in the past, or could possibly help in the future. This is simply a request for us to "trust them", which we should decidely give to no administration, let alone the present one.