I used to travel from Syracuse, NY to Potsdam, NY via Greyhound on the evening bus from the Syracuse airport.
Many times the border patrol would meet the bus at Canton, NY and check every passenger. And now they are telling that this
is beginning to happen. This happened more than 4 years ago.
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Checking buses for illegals is something they do when they want to. At times they pursue illegals, or pretend to and check people on buses, and many other places. Most of the time they don’t do any of that and the border is wide open ...
I remember riding a bus with my mother back in the 1960s and Border Patrol got on the bus and checked people out- you are right it is not new. None of this is new- the government just decides from time to time whether they will enforce immigration laws or not. When they decide to enforce laws they act like it is a new thing.