And isn't this excerpt rich?
According to the Membership Director for Florida Immigrant Coalition, Isabel Sousa-Rodriguez," incidents like these erode public trust in police and authority figures whose job is to serve and protect our communities.
So do highwaymen posing as Highway Patrolmen in unmarked cars who lurk around places where they can issue costly citations for petty offenses in the name of public safety.
And how long was her visa expired? Why are "immigrants" of any stripe (especially from $***hole countries) supposed to be a special class with more rights than mere American citizens?
Go ICE!
Winning. I’m not tired yet.
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border patrol has been doing this for many years possibly curtailed under Obama its called Transportation Check.
The Border Patrol is serving and protecting their communities, and the nation, as a whole. They have the authority to board and inspect all vehicles, trains, planes, you name it...within 100 miles of the border. This has been standard procedure since the 1930’s. By the very definition of illegal alien, anyone who overstays their visa is a criminal, and subject to arrest, prosecution & deportation. Well done, Border Patrol, well done.
In 2002 I took Greyhound from Mo to Florida. In Tallahassee we had a security check.
Basically they asked where we were coming from, where we were going and the reason for the trip. I don’t recall having to show id.
They pulled a guy off and searched his bags. He had a lot of money. Likely a drug runner. I figure they already suspected him and asking everyone questions was to make it appear that he wasn’t the target.
MSM is working hard to normalize lawlessness.
“So how is this different than what we all encounter with TSA at an airport? Or other public conveyences? Or even being stopped at a roadblock when we are in a private car because it is on a public highway?”
The difference is that, until just a few years ago, the border patrol could only do things like this at an actual border crossing. They recently were granted the power to perform these kinds of checks up to 100 miles inside the actual borders.