The Border Patrol’s jurisdiction isn’t confined to southwestern deserts or isolated northern checkpoints: Federal law empowers agents to board vehicles and vessels “within a reasonable distance from any external boundary of the United States,” whether inland or offshore. “Reasonable” is 100 miles as the crow flies—meaning some 200 million people live within an expansive border zone.

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    4 months ago

    That’s hard to hear what everyone goes through during the process. I’m terrified of a trump victory for even my legal friends. Remember when he was going to take away people’s citizenship?

    And yes of course what color is your skin is a significant factor in all of that.

    That’s what those illegal Canadians want you to think. I’m joking, but I live in Seattle which is pretty close to the border. I don’t hear about any of those Canadians staying longer than their visa or sneaking across to go shopping at our outlet malls, lol.

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      Yeah.

      Usually I can be pretty aloof talking politics on Lemmy with the bad faith people, but having had some distant second hand contact with the reality and I think some concept of what it might become, under Trump 2, means that the people who say they don’t want to vote Democratic because they care about immigration can sometimes make me feel genuine rage.