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.
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Lets try the new Tappan Zee Bridge for about 4 hours next.
Winter is coming soon. The “Ice backs” from the north will be upon us.
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
They do I-5 all the time apparently.
I went through that once, it was easier than LA or NYC traffic.
“What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?”
American or European?
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Seriously?
80 miles from the border you harass citizens?
Your question should be asked at the borders.
If you have so much time on your hands, drive the border crashers back to Mexico.
Glad I missed this little stunt...wa
Actually they are a waste of money.
In an effort to look like they are doing something ICE sets up checkpoints many miles from the border, in well known locations, and then trumpets the fact that they caught a couple of people who overstayed their visa, or have the wrong type of visa, or otherwise should not be here. For citizens the ICE show ends up costing you hours of sitting in a traffic jam.
In fact the same ICE agents could arrest bus loads of illegal immigrants, including ones who have committed crimes, or who are involved in smuggling people into the country, or employers who are exploiting illegal immigrants if they spent the same amount of effort and money looking where the illegal immigrants actually are.
At a recent checkpoint 90 miles from the border in very rural New Hampshire, ICE arrested 5 people on immigration crimes in 3 days of work. It would not be hard to arrest 5 people who have committed immigration crimes within an hour in many locations in New England.
Roadblocks make sense in places like Texas, California or Arizona where there are large numbers of people crossing the border. Setting up a roadblock in the middle of nowhere in New Hampshire is a waste of time and money. Those agents should be visiting dairy farms, or urban areas where illegal immigrants and traffickers are located.
Harassing citizens?
Did you miss the part where they arrested 5 suspected illegals, along with drugs and drug paraphernalia?
It’s the war of 1812 all over again.............
First question:
Are you now or have you ever been a Member of the Band Nickleback?
Did you miss the NH court decision suppressing all the drug evidence from a previous roadblock since it was an unconstitutional search under NH law? So the drug arrests were just a waste of the taxpayers' money.
The suspected illegals are likely to be visa overstays - the least problematic kind of illegal alien. Enforcing immigration laws is important, but spending time rounding up criminal aliens, smugglers, human traffickers, and people who entered the country illegally is more productive than stopping hundreds of people in the middle of nowhere in New Hampshire in order to find a couple of people who didn't renew their visa on time.
If the ICE guys want to do something, how about a raid or a roadblock in Lawrence, Mass? There they can arrest drug dealing MS-13 members instead of some college student who forgot to renew his or her visa.
I was stopped once in AZ. I thought it was a joke :)
LOL! Of course the New York Times FORGOT to mention it was a NH STATE judge that ruled the FEDS could not do this.
Too bad, so sad.
LOL! I love it!
My aunt who lives in New Hampshire whines all of the time about the people from Canuckistan who violate the NH border.
You'd be surprised how polite.
On the east coast, the Germans actually managed to set up a base here in Virginia.
They keep us lulled by offering bratwurst around Christmas.
i see you don’t have I clue about enforcement.
seriously
Great little story. I believe it, let's get that straight. Can you rummage up a link to it? I'd like to see all the details. It's quite a bit more effort than we see from the Mexican coyotes.
the 911 bombers came through and stayed in Maine.
An immigration checkpoint could, yes. They wouldn't necessarily have to stop and question every car, but they would have to have some non-subjective rule, like maybe every tenth car. They're specifically legal according to a Supreme Court decision.
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