Posted on 01/23/2018 2:59:35 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
....U.S. Customs and Border Protection is defending its right to detain and arrest a woman found on a Greyhound bus in Fort Lauderdale...
...“They asked everyone for documentation. It had to be specifically a U.S. identification or a passport with a stamp of entrance,” passenger Raquel Quesada said. “They grabbed her carry-on and escorted her off the bus.”
Just three days after she was taken into custody, Beverly was turned over to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) for removal proceedings.
According to Customs Border Patrol, she overstayed her tourist visa.
The Florida Immigration Coalition membership director, Isabel Souza, said she spoke to Beverly’s frantic daughter-in-law.
Someone was here ILLEGALLY...and Border Patrol did their job.
To watch/read/listen to the FAKE NEWS in south Florida (I've seen TWO tv reports and the Shun-Sentinel Fake Newspaper on the subject), you'd think the Border Patrol agents were the Gestapo.
I know people that this has happened to in Canada. If you overstay your visa they escort you to a plane.
Liberals only want the laws applied to us little people. Special groups like democrat politicians and illegal immigrants get a pass. I don’t know about anyone else but I’m sick and tired of certain people being above the law.
Failed states are dangerous to their inhabitants and their neighbors. I don't want to live next to a failed state.
Deportation for expired visas should be automatic. The traveler agreed to depart by date certain. That date has gone by. What else is there to say?
Enforce the terms of the agreement, and put that person on a list (with biometrics) to make sure they never get another visa or consideration for legal immigration.
Do that a few thousand times, and staying on an expired visa will become much less common.
Pour encourager les autres.
Do this a few thousand times, and illegal voting will become quite rare.
Alternate world dream: ICE raids some of the broadcast studios and arrests the anti-American anchors while they are on the air.
When I traveled by Greyhound from East Texas to California in the late 1980s there was a stop in the desert somewhere (not in Texas) where passengers were asked to provide ID or state that they were in the country legally. It is nothing new.
And what was more offensive was passing into California and being told that all produce had to be thrown out before we could pass. Nice way to protect your produce industry from imported goods. How queer that same industry imports and supports illegal labor.
I hope they are defending their power to detain, etc...
Government entities have powers, they do not have rights.
Why didn’t they have a better idea who it was. A lot of actual Americans are going to be bristly about getting the suspicious treatment (wasn’t there a “papers please” section of World Net Daily?). I’d hate to be imprisoned on suspicion of not being American when the problem was a lost driver’s license. Isn’t that what a Wall is for.
That makes her an illegal alien. Send her back home.
DEPORT ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS. NO exceptions.
God bless President Trump, he is enforcing the law thus saving this country
A wall does nothing to remove aliens who illegally remain in these United States after their visas expire.
It turns out there are lots of articles on when you must show your identity papers. Below is one written from the “resist” standpoint. One requirement is if the officer has a reasonable suspicion that a crime has been committed. I’d say somebody on a bus who is obviously foreign, especially if there are a lot of illegals in the area, probably falls into this category. When I visited Mexico my local host suggested I carry my passport with me at all times. I witnessed American licensed cars being pulled over and the cop demanding $50 or he’d arrest them. Not being able to prove I am there legally would have been one “legitimate” reason to arrest me and demand money for my release. (Yeah, the place was a sh*thole.)
http://www.knowmyrights.org/knowledgebase/faq/police-encounters/when-do-i-have-to-show-id
Yes. I was traveling on a Greyhound from Phoenix to Philly in 1979. The bus was stopped along the highway in New Mexico and three Border Patrol Agents boarded and looked everyone over and pulled one person off.
That still doesn’t address not having a good idea of who.
It’s not the greatest possible idea in a place that is already estranged in itself. The “papers please” opponents will undermine even Donald Trump.
...The Florida Immigration Coalition membership director, Isabel Souza, said she spoke to Beverly’s frantic daughter-in-law...
So, nobody knew she “overstayed” her visa? A huge percentage of illegals get here that way.
Nice way to protect your produce industry from imported goods.
Actually that is to protect crops that they grow in California from pest that may be on the fruit from other states. Overall not a bad thing.
There are border checkpoints between San Diego and Los Angeles. I am at a loss on how they can tell who or who isn’t legal as you drive by the check point but evidently they have a system.
In the 1970s (if I remember correctly) these type of checkpoints were challenged in court and the Supreme Court ruled they were okay.
There is a technicality about being so many miles from a border turning the whole zone into a “checkpoint” that libertarians of WND for one were constantly bristling over as this was a belt densely populated by Americans.
Can even Donald Trump talk his way past the culture shock? The next big thing that Democrats may try is to reach libertarian instead of pure liberal, and that could get some of the GOP traditional support.
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