Border patrol agents are stopping people on highways in New England to check their citizenship
Source: CNN
(CNN)Far from ground zero in the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration along the southern border, US Customs and Border Protection checkpoints on highways in Maine and New Hampshire are catching the eye of civil liberties groups.
On Interstate 95 near the remote northern Maine town of Lincoln this week, the Border Patrol said it made nine drug seizures and two arrests for immigration violations during an 11-hour checkpoint operation in which agents asked motorists about their place of birth and citizenship status.
The federal agency -- one of several at the center of a growing humanitarian crisis involving 2,300 children separated from their parents at the Mexico border -- said in a statement that Wednesday's checkpoint in Maine was "a means of preventing smuggling organizations from exploiting existing transportation systems to travel to the interior of the United States."
Customs and Border Protection says the US Supreme Court has affirmed the agency's ability to ask motorists' citizenship status, even if they have no suspicion. Agents use training and questions to make decisions about a traveler's citizenship or residency, it said.
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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/23/us/maine-new-hampshire-border-patrol-checkpoints/index.html
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to get an officer to be sniffing around your car and your business, to see if they can arrest you on something. Are we carving out another search exemption? 100 miles from the border they can do that I'm told. Some states can have legal checkpoints as per state law. I assume that means the Canadian border as well. (the 100 mile deal.)
If that's the case police in Cleveland, Buffalo, Detroit, etc...can use it as a blanket reason to pull you over...doesn't pass the smell test to me. I dunno.
That's a fact. And pay for them with taxpayer dollars. Using the power of the govt to redistribute our wealth.
..Fuck That Dangerous Prick. Fuck Donald J. Trump.
they could be anyone, anywhere. 
Yes, I know they pull over whites too. But they give extra scrutiny and harassment to brown people and refuse to believe our passport or driver's license is even real. It happens to me with my DC license. These assholes claim DC isn't a state and can't have licenses. 
I carry my passport whenever I travel by car or plane. Yes, it is a US passport.
Checkpoints and complaints are escalating and it's becoming a more publicized issue in the media. ALL of New England, save for a tiny corner in SE Vermont, is in the enforcement zone so basically any of us can be pulled over at any time. Ridiculous! Supposedly we have the right to refuse to answer citizenship questions, but must be prepared to be retained until the patrol is satisfied we're not a danger.
Thus far, the patrol is asking questions without requiring production of paperwork. I put nothing past the Dump administration and feel that it's just a matter of time before this changes. I used to have a wallet-sized certified birth certificate, but that's gone missing over the years, and I have just submitted a form and payment to my hometown Clerk's office to replace it, just in case. I don't wish to carry my Passport at all times, and a drivers' license is only proof of residence, not citizenship.
[link:https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone|
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Much of U.S. Population Affected
•Many people think that border-related policies only impact people living in border towns like El Paso or San Diego. The reality is that Border Patrol's interior enforcement operations encroach deep into and across the United States, affecting the majority of Americans.
•Roughly two-thirds of the United States' population lives within the 100-mile zone—that is, within 100 miles of a U.S. land or coastal border. That's about 200 million people.
•Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont lie entirely or almost entirely within this area.
•Nine of the ten largest U.S. metropolitan areas, as determined by the 2010 Census, also fall within this zone: New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego and San Jose.
"Papers, please." Be ready...it's coming.
