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Border Patrol Agents Shut Down Highways in Maine and New Hampshire With Checkpoints
New York Times ^

Posted on 06/22/2018 4:19:47 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Border Patrol Agents Shut Down Highways in Maine and New Hampshire With Checkpoints

By Matthew Haag

June 22, 2018

For 11 hours on Wednesday, drivers who wanted to travel through a remote stretch of northern Maine were asked a simple question: Where were you born?

Border Patrol agents closed off all southbound lanes of Interstate 95 north of Bangor, Me., stopping drivers, searching outside their cars with drug-sniffing dogs and refusing to let them pass until they disclosed their citizenship. At least one encounter was captured on cellphone video.

“Good afternoon, ma’am, U.S. Border Patrol immigration inspection,” an officer told two reporters with the Bangor Daily News who had heard about the checkpoint, about 80 miles from the Canadian border, and decided to drive to it and record their interaction. “What country are you a citizen of?”

The driver protested. “If you want to continue down the road, then yes, ma’am, we need to know what country you’re a citizen of,” the agent said.

Such immigration checkpoints on highways have been used by the Border Patrol for years, often along popular smuggling and drug-trafficking routes in the Southwest. But their frequency has increased under President Trump, federal officials have said. The one in Maine was set up several days after agents conducted a three-day checkpoint on a New Hampshire highway, at least the second checkpoint in that state so far this year.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; immigration; maine; newhampshire
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Oh the horror.................../s
1 posted on 06/22/2018 4:19:47 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Great use of our tax dollars.


2 posted on 06/22/2018 4:21:47 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (Trump: America First. Obama: Quran First. Clintons: Our Money First)
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To: Sub-Driver

What’s your favorite Color ?


3 posted on 06/22/2018 4:24:16 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Sub-Driver

One of my husband’s friends is in the Canadian Forces. One time he was leading a convoy to California for desert training and they got stopped for one of these nowhere-near-the-border checkpoints.

He was in a Canadian uniform, in a Canadian military vehicle, flying a Canadian flag, with about 300 Canadian soldiers behind him and they asked him if he was a US citizen.

He asked if they’re always so polite to invading armies and getting no answer from the dumbfounded BP he ordered the column to drive on.


4 posted on 06/22/2018 4:31:13 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Barry Soetoro best steer clear of Maine


5 posted on 06/22/2018 4:37:39 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: Sub-Driver
LOL, sounds as if the U. S. is not very hospitable to illegal alien invaders.

GOOD!

6 posted on 06/22/2018 4:52:29 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: Sub-Driver

HOORAY CBP!!


7 posted on 06/22/2018 4:52:42 PM PDT by PGalt
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Barry Soetoro best steer clear of Maine

lol! - It would be funny if he got busted at one!

8 posted on 06/22/2018 4:56:26 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (what a mess we got ourselves into)
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To: butlerweave

“Who won da Series in thoity-eight?”


9 posted on 06/22/2018 4:58:53 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: PGalt

This has been done every year in the same spot on I-93 in New Hampshire during Motorcycle Week for well over 20 years.


10 posted on 06/22/2018 5:00:19 PM PDT by Mogger
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To: Sub-Driver

11 posted on 06/22/2018 5:00:31 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: MeganC
He was in a Canadian uniform, in a Canadian military vehicle, flying a Canadian flag, with about 300 Canadian soldiers behind him and they asked him if he was a US citizen.

As idiotic as this sounds, it prevents the argument that the USBP is profiling, ask everyone the same question.

Remember a van load of "marines" was stopped in SoCal and their name tapes were all the same? None knew when the birthday of the USMC was and that's blasphemy to a real Marine.

12 posted on 06/22/2018 5:03:06 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: Sub-Driver

There goes the next TPB tour! Sleep safe Merica, Ricky Bubbles and Julian are safely a border away.


13 posted on 06/22/2018 5:08:53 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: MeganC

What was the Canadian military doing here? Did they have orders to allow them here like a joint FTX?


14 posted on 06/22/2018 5:15:03 PM PDT by Lumper20 (w)
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To: Sub-Driver

Do checkpoints really shut down the highway?

I don’t think so.

Fake News headline...


15 posted on 06/22/2018 5:19:39 PM PDT by Paladin2
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"..in New Hampshire during Motorcycle Week..."

Can they do anything to keep them away from the Sturgis Rally?

16 posted on 06/22/2018 5:22:18 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Sub-Driver

We’re waiting for the invasion from Canada!

Oh wait...


17 posted on 06/22/2018 5:39:32 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A n Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Sub-Driver

Praise Jesus. Is this for real? Oh gawd I hope so!!


18 posted on 06/22/2018 5:41:33 PM PDT by raiderboy (Trump has assured us that he will shut down the government to get the WALL in Sept.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Meanwhile, a Dem candidate for senator from Maine was arrested outside a McAllen, TX detention center.

Democratic Candidate Arrested At Detention Center After Getting Destroyed By Border Patrol Agent

19 posted on 06/22/2018 5:42:35 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: Steven Tyler

“Barry Soetoro best steer clear of Maine”

Why? Do you think he’d start telling the truth NOW?


20 posted on 06/22/2018 5:46:26 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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