Posted on 01/26/2018 3:10:13 PM PST by mdittmar
“We were appalled to see U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents abusing their mandate and authority to arbitrarily board a bus to demand that all passengers produce identification and documentation.
“We support strengthening our border protections against external threats and bolstering our officials in their work to keep Americans safe. However, arbitrary and disruptive enforcement actions like this do not make our communities safer. Rather, they waste taxpayer resources, cruelly dehumanize people who have not committed any crimes, and erode our fundamental rights. Identification is not required to ride a bus from one Florida city to another.
“While the law gives U.S. CBP officials the authority to conduct transportation checks within a reasonable distance from the border, this event and others like it across the country show that Congress must conduct a comprehensive review of what ‘reasonable distance’ means. The 100-mile border zone established by U.S. regulations arbitrarily extends CBP jurisdiction and undercuts the rights for citizens and legal residents to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. In Florida, this arbitrary zone puts everyone in the state under constant threat of stops, interrogations, and searches without even the most basic due process protections.
“We regret that visitors to Fort Lauderdale were subjected to this raid, and will work together to push for reasonable limits on border agent authority that protect our civil liberties.”
Who is this illegal alien supporting dirtbag?
Build the wall, enforce the law, deport them all!
Any US official who protects illegal aliens from our laws needs to be run out of office.
A TSA says whut? What planet has he been on for 17 years?
My question would be, what percentage of these bus interdictions result in the removal of at least one illegal alien? If none, then I might be offended too, but not for the reason the Congressman is...rather, I would tell ICE they are inefficiently looking in the wrong places. If these raids are successful, I say, “Great!”
In Florida, this arbitrary zone puts everyone in the state under constant threat of stops, interrogations, and searches without even the most basic due process protections.
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The peninsula of Florida is for all practical purposes a foreign country, so it works out fine.
“You don’t have to be a citizen to ride a bus”. LOL!
FU Dootch!
I hope they got some.
Congressman, if you do not like the 100 mile “rule”, simply submit a law that defines the details of where DHS / ICE can conduct their searches and get it passed through Congress. Anything else and you are just grandstanding for your base.
Congressman, if you do not like the 100 mile “rule”, simply submit a law that defines the details of where DHS / ICE can conduct their searches and get it passed through Congress. Anything else and you are just grandstanding for your base.
We need to brand these self righteous scumbag politicians as the enemy of the people, the American people. All those who put the illegal immigrants of any and all ethnic persuasions ahead of the American people ARE THE ENEMY
I’d bet many of us have heard Liberals likening the ICE arresting immigrants who are in this country illegally to what took place in Nazi Germany when the Nazis rounded up and arrested the Jews. Just to be clear for the sake of any liberal who might read this, the Jews were being arrested for just being Jews.
The Border Patrol has been boarding buses in the southwest for decades now. I was in a bus that was boarded and it was close to comic.
To start with, there were some German tourists in the back who had been traveling all over the US, and for the first time, somebody had asked for their papers. Well, not theirs in particular, but they were thrilled. The BP guy just shrugged and didn’t even want to look at them. The Germans were disappointed.
Then there was a respectable Vietnamese family who looked puzzled when the BP guy asked to see their IDs, in Spanish.
So he asked them again, louder. Still in Spanish. Finally some white guy said to them, in English, that he wanted to see their papers. “Oh, certainly,” he said in good English to the BP guy, “here you go”. BP guy lost interest.
Ted Dooche (D)
So, if you rob a bank and get 100 miles from the bank, you can keep the money?
So, if you rob a bank and get 100 miles from the bank, you can keep the money?
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Sure, if you’re not within 100 miles of any other bank.
Deutch is pronounced “douche.”
I’m confused as to Congressman’s Deuthch’s concern. This happens to every single person coming into our country at the airport every single day. What’s the issue with a random check at the border?
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