Outcry after Florida Border Patrol conducts checks, detains woman on Greyhound bus
Source: NBC News
by Carmen Sesin / Jan.23.2018 / 6:00 PM ET
MIAMI A widely circulated video that allegedly shows agents from Customs and Border Patrol detaining a woman on a Greyhound bus, after demanding from people on board proof of citizenship, has sparked indignation by many.
The bus stopped at a station in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., during its route from Orlando to Miami on Friday afternoon. The driver announced there would be a routine security checkpoint and that is when two uniformed agents boarded the bus and announced they were from Border Patrol, according to Florida Immigrant Coalition, a Miami-based advocacy group.
The incident was captured on cell phone video by passengers on the back of the bus. One woman, who seemed puzzled, can be heard asking another passenger is this new? The video posted on the Florida Immigration Coalitions Twitter account has more than 2.3 million views.
The woman on the bus had an expired tourist visa and was arrested, the Border Patrol confirmed to the Miami Herald. She is currently in detention at the Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/outcry-after-florida-border-patrol-conducts-checks-detains-woman-greyhound-n840311
patricia92243
(12,607 posts)passport or go around carrying my birth certificate,.
0rganism
(23,994 posts)welcome to Great America! papers, please
angrychair
(8,758 posts)Sent here to destroy America?
patricia92243
(12,607 posts)James48
(4,444 posts)Actual 1943 Nazi Germany travel permit, allowing one to travel from one city to another for a period of 15 days.
Remember back when we didnt need those in the U.S.A.?
Welcome to Trump fascist AmeriKKKa!
FakeNoose
(32,917 posts)I'm shaking my head, wondering what the hell does Florida need border patrol police for? I can see checking passports at the airports and boat docks, but Greyhound buses? They're not even going over the state line.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)100 miles of any US border. Thus, the entire state of Florida is legal territory for them.
EarthFirst
(2,906 posts)87 South; just outside of Keene there is a semi-permanent CBP checkpoint.
Didnt even leave the state; much less an international border and Im shaken down for information every time...
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)permissible. But until someone sues, they'll continue to feel ''empowered" by Trump's viciously anti-immigrant posture and keep pushing the envelope.
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)It sounds like they have new orders.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,075 posts)McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)Crabby Appleton
(5,231 posts)compliant state has their citizenship status encoded on the license.
George II
(67,782 posts)As I'd done about 50+ times in the past (my mother's family lives in Toronto, we visited often) I planned on using my driver's license for identification. I'd only been asked my citizenship, never asked to "prove" it.
The Canadian Customs officer (a nasty woman) told me that a driver's license wasn't sufficient to demonstrate citizenship, only residence.
Of course, that was before September 11, 2001. Since then I got a passport and always bring that with me.
But it's ludicrous for people traveling from one city within a state. Welcome to trump's America.
Crabby Appleton
(5,231 posts)You seem unfamiliar with the "Real ID Act of 2005".
Here are some sources of info, especially important since some of some of the provisions related to commercial domestic air travel (which is regulated by the feds) just recently hit their target dates.
https://www.dhs.gov/real-id-public-faqs
https://patch.com/connecticut/ridgefield/ct-ahead-real-id-curve
http://wwlp.com/2018/01/22/massachusetts-to-start-issuing-real-id-compliant-licenses-in-march/
George II
(67,782 posts)....not inter- or intra-state travel by car, bus, or train. And if we don't have the enhanced license (neither my wife nor I do) we can still travel by air if we have a passport or other state/federal issued identification.
But I'm glad you mentioned this, I have a passport but my wife's has expired, so I'm now in the process of getting hers current.
FakeNoose
(32,917 posts)...but that's so I know where it is. Other than the TSA at the airport, nobody has ever asked to see it. But I guess that's going to change real soon.