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Northern Vermont went all in on Trump because of his border promises. Then came the changes voters here weren’t anticipating.
Northern Vermont went all in on Trump because of his border promises. Then came the changes voters here weren’t anticipating.
SWANTON, Vermont — Late in the afternoon of Monday, April 21, roughly 20 miles east of here in Berkshire, Customs and Border Protection agents arrived at one of the dozens of dairy farms sprawling over the verdant Vermont landscape that hugs southern Canada. The raid was part of a search operation pursuing a complaint that day about two people having crossed over the border into American territory. According to the agency and local news reports, Border Protection entered one of the trailers on the property where migrant laborers reside and arrested eight men.
But according to area priest Father Luis Barrera, who heard the story from parishioners, the tip that catalyzed it all was wrong: The pair spotted emerging from the woods near the border weren’t recent arrivals from Canada. Rather, Barrera said, they were agricultural laborers who had long worked on the farm, and the eight detained included some who had participated in his Spanish-language services.
One of the major problems facing the border patrol today is that it went out and built its ranks by recruiting Rambo, when it actually turns out that what the border patrol needs is Mother Teresa.
Garrett Graff, journalist covering the crisis at the southern border
Important to know!
Liberals right now: if you cross into a tribe's island you deserve to get shot with arrows.
Liberals: omg just let everyone across the border- YOU CAN'T SHOOT PEOPLE WHO ARE THROWING ROCKS AT YOU!
Customs and Border Protection is making news again for its aggressive immigration enforcement — this time, questioning Canadian fishing vessels in disputed international waters.
Congress has given Immigration and Naturalization Service employees certain powers that they can exercise without a warrant. Under 8 U.S.C. § 1357(a)(3), INS specifically has the power:
“without warrant ... within a reasonable distance from any external boundary of the United States ... to board and search for aliens any vessel ... and any railway car, aircraft, conveyance, or vehicle.”
Under 8 C.F.R. § 287.1(a)(2), that “reasonable distance” is defined as “within 100 air miles from any external boundary of the United States.”
The entire state of Maine is within 100 miles of an external boundary of the United States.
So are Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
“Most of the ten largest U.S. cities are within 100 air miles of the boundary.” These include New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Diego, and San Jose. Also San Francisco, Boston, Miami, Detroit, Seattle, and Washington D.C.
In all of these places, INS maintains it has the absolute right to stop, search, and seize, without a warrant, regardless of the Constitution.
Now you understand the problem.