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Border Patrol Arresting People Within 100 Miles From Canadian Border

110911border.jpg The US Border Patrol is supposed to keep us safe from wars of Canadian aggression started by John Candy, but for the last several years they've been boarding buses and trains, arresting anyone who doesn't have proper "papers."

According to a report [pdf] by the NYCLU, from 2006 to 2009, 2,743 people were arrested in transportation raids. 76% of them had been in the US for more than a year, and 12% had been here for longer than a decade. Less than 1% of these arrests occurred on the border itself. Cue the depressing video of a couple getting kicked off an Amtrak train in Buffalo because their green cards are pending.

Only cold-blooded criminals hellbent on exploiting our country's resources would wear an Adidas sweatshirt like that. Border Patrol cites a federal statute that allows them to operate within 100 miles of the border, but 97% of the country's population lives within 100 miles of the border. "The Border Patrol takes an extremely broad view of its mission that would disturb most Americans, who expect to be able to go about their daily lives without having to prove their citizenship to armed government agents," NYCLU advocacy director Udi Ofer says in a release.

"These 'show me your papers' tactics belong in a police state, not the world's oldest democracy," says Ofer. Don't worry, President Cain's electric fence or President Perry's Predator Drones will eliminate the need for these patrols anyway. A spokesperson from Customs and Border Protection tells the Times that they've cut back on the transportation raids. "It's not that we're stopping them," she says, "We're trying to be smarter about how we do it."

Can we start applying that same tactic to our southern border?

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  • U.N. Owen

    As usual, the ones who NEED to leave (forcefully, if necessary), are swimming across the OTHER border.

    Couple of things: this crap, how they're coming here to do 'jobs we (?!?) don't want to do,' uh - if anyone has ridden the trains for the past couple of years,mtheyve been assaulted with these fucking illegals blasting their god damn guitar.'

    I never heard if THAT 'job' before.

    The other thing is. For those who whine, as
    No say I. 'cruel.'

    Remember this: there are MANY people who want to come hear LEGALLY. THese illegals are not only breaking our laws, they're screwing it up for those who FOLLOW the law.

    I NEVER heard of 'illegals' trying to enter...from Canada..

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  • DCTransplant

    the only solution is to put an Israeli-type fence along the Canadian border to keep them bobbing heads from destroying America!

  • reporteratlarge

    Give me an effin break on the (undocumented) aliens taking jobs BS. I didn't know you were striving to cut grass, clean bathrooms, or take one of the other menial jobs that immigrants often have. And if you, as a free market, competition-is-best, tea bagger can't compete with immigrants for quality jobs, then how smart and resourceful can you be? I don't have stats at hand, but I'll bet you an ounce of overpriced, Glen Beck-endorsed gold that far more good jobs were exported overseas by corporate America to fatten their bottom lines in the last 20 years than taken by immigrants.

  • Bingo. Case in point - Mountains of crops are rotting in the fields in Alabama and Georgia right now because the jobs once performed by immigrants were ones that Americans didn't want.

    http://www.npr.org/2011/10/17/...

  • Morley1

    Exactly.  A true libertarian should not believe in citizenship.  What right does any government have to tell me where I can live and where I can work?  I should be able to move freely wherever I want and take any job where I can get hired not based on some archaic thing such as citizenship.  It's the free market that led every major manufacturer to move plants to Mexico for cheap labor and so the free market should allow me to find whoever can cut my grass for the cheapest.  Unfortunately I've found that 45 year old failed middle managers do a terrible job with an edger.

  • Dave Francis

    Can you accept as any average American that criminal
    businesses are using illegal alien’s workers, instead of hiring some of the 22
    million jobless? There is even unmitigated evidence that somewhere between 8.5
    and 9.0 percentage of illegal aliens are working in the United States. Please
    tell me—what sort of government allows this to continue? If you are frustrated
    and angry induced by this corruption in our sovereign nation, then explore your
    options? You can ignore this abuse of our immigration laws, set down by the
    1986 Immigration Control and Reform Act or you can pound on the doors of
    indifferent politicians, obligated by their oath of allegiance to enforce
    immigration laws. For an instance, do agriculture
    and farmers think their free of blame, for an apparent lose of illegal workers.
    They have no excuse for paying well below wages and conditions, and then having
    the audacity to take their charges to hospital including family and registering
    their children in public schools. More unfunded mandates that we as taxpayers
    are forced to pay?

     

    As a moderate Conservative and with Tea Party principles as
    myself, its completely illogical for the Department of Justice to coerce the
    states of Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, Indiana and now South Carolina over there
    policing enforcement, to rescue their residents from the deluge of economic
    nationals. Even worse is this administration to even allow foreign governments
    in intervening in this 'Witch Hunt.' when they are the instigators of these
    swarms of illegal people appearing here? However, I must announce in fairness
    that President Obama started off well, in deporting hundreds of foreign
    nationals, especially criminals, but has faded out because of intervention by
    the Liberal extremist that were hired, with the intent of undermining public policy.

     

    Have States no sovereignty rights anymore, when years of
    government mismanagement have placed us firmly in the predicament of not able
    to assert their own power. When the courts fail ‘The People’ and they enforce
    unfunded mandates by an administration bureaucracy. We are already taxed to the
    hilt, so why should we pay for illegal aliens who violate our laws? It is
    general knowledge that our schools to K-12, gives free education to children of
    illegal aliens. Or that our health care system is suffocating under a
    tremendous strain? That our penal system is overwhelmed with criminal aliens,
    from every poverty-packed corner of the world? That our prisons are so
    overcrowded that the judiciary directs, that we must place them in already
    crowded jails or let them go—back on the streets, as Obama’s has already begin
    to do, by executive order. Why is not every person who violates our laws, not
    facing FELONY CHARGES, inclusive of breaking into America?  Under
    the MANDATORY LAW of E-Verify, most would self-deport.

     

    The New Construction
    bill that was bipartisan today in this session, insist that every Contractor
    and Sub-contractor use E-Verify or be charged with a felony, as illegal aliens
    will still jobs from America Workers.

     

    My opinion is that under strict codes of conduct as would be
    enacted by a larger majority of the House and Senate, represented by the TEA
    PARTY, would forever stop this collusion of corporate and big business and the
    lobbyists. Their ideology in Washington would have us; dismantle of border
    fence that bring rapture of joy to every open doorway entity, every radical
    group, who unfortunately has the cash power beyond the ordinary man or women to
    use us as slave-taxpayers. Although sadly a small part of the US population is
    fooled into a state of complacency, the greater volume knows now of hundred
    billion dollar price tag stuck into our wage packet.

     

    TODAY WE CAN ACTUALLY
    DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. WE HAVE THE POWER OF THE VOTE AND CAN REMOVE EVERY
    PERSON IN THE TWO PARTY CONGRESS, WHO HAVE SOLD US OUT. OF COURSE WITH THIS
    HISTORICAL 2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO SAFE-GUARD THE
    ELECTORAL PROCESS.

     

    Every
    law abiding American should be watchful of Liberal progressive tricks in our
    electoral law, as Rep. Keith
    Ellison from Minnesota who would undermine national election laws-- as dismally
    unprotected as they are now. This Democrat envisions introducing a revised
    federal laws that allows the individual to register the same day and vote,
    without even showing any proof of which they are? This would open the door, to
    every illegal alien who can speak a few words of English and cause a major disintegration
    of most sacred right as a birth or naturalized citizen. Could any elected
    politician be so incompetent to introduce a bill that is illegal for every
    citizen of having to show picture ID. The man needs to be admitted and fitted
    for a straight jacket. We already have recorded cases of illegal aliens,
    felons, the dead and legal immigrants violating these laws. Voter fraud, using
    absentee ballots is the easiest document to forge and 2012 will be of paramount
    importance.

     

    Smith’s THE LEGAL
    WORKFORCE ACT’ (H.R.2885.) The ‘Ways
    and Means Committee led by Majority Speak John Boehner (R-OH) must
    adopt the Mandatory E-Verify Bill (H.R. 2885.) and should be bombarded by demanding voters, as never before. Reps.
    Chip Cravaack (R-Minn.), Tim Johnson (R-Ill.), Reps. Shelley Moore Capito
    (R-W.V.) and Joe Walsh (R-Ill.), Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) John Sullivan (R-Okla.)
    and just yesterday Rep. Ralph Hall (R-Texas) is now
    co-sponsoring House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith's Legal Workforce Act
    (H.R.2885), with new members who are rapidly joining this monumental bill. Smith's
    Legal Workforce Act (H.R.2885) that would require 100% of businesses to use
    E-Verify for all new hires within 2 years. The bill would also require all
    federal, state, and local agencies as well as federal and state contractors and
    critical infrastructure sites to use E-Verify within 6 months. The Legal
    Workforce Act could open up jobs currently held by illegal aliens.

     

     

    So
    as of Wednesday November 9, 2011 currently has 100 sponsors, 58 co-sponsors,
    with only 43 House members to go. GET ON THESE LAWMAKERS CASES IMMEDIATELY—Call
    this number at the Washington Switchboard 202-224-3121. Consider that flourishing sites as NumbersUSA and hundreds
    of organizations such as American Patrol, Federation of American Immigration
    Reform, CAPS, Heritage Foundation and others have the answers on costs, surveys
    and analysis.

     

    Go to any Search Engine or specifically GOOGLE and type in
    NumbersUSA site as there you can freely fax politicians and inform them that
    you are a voter, and will be doing so when they come searching desperately for
    your vote.

     

     Smith's Legal Workforce Act
    (H.R.2885) that would require 100% of businesses to use E-Verify for all new
    hires within 2 years. The bill would also require all federal, state, and local
    agencies as well as federal and state contractors and critical infrastructure sites
    to use E-Verify within 6 months. The Legal Workforce Act could open up as many
    as 7 million jobs currently held by illegal aliens.

     

     

     THIS IS THE TIME TO SUPPORT THE AMERICAN UNEMPLOYED WORKER. GIVE ICE
    THE POWER TO COME DOWN HARD ON EVERY WORKPLACE, WHICH THINKS IT IS ABOVE THE
    LAW? BESTOW ICE AND OTHER AUTHORITIES TO SPRING FLASH AUDITS ON CRIMINAL BUSINESSES
    AND PROSECUTE THEM.

     

    If you ban my blogs
    or comments, you are a Liberal progressive

     

    I hate any E-media
    where you cannot refute their articles.

  • theonlyseven

    like most teabaggers, Brittanicus doesnt have an idea of their own.  This whole thing is a cut and paste from other wingnut, scared old people websites.

  • edgie168

    tl;dr

  • PedanticMFr

    If you ban my blogs or comments, you are a Liberal progressive

    Tag! No tag-backs, infinity, you're it! *raspberry*

  • DCTransplant

    were you born like this, or did you have an accident later in life?

  • Did you just crap on your keyboard and hit "Post"?

  • knackers

    Too many white spaces. Isn't Gothamist doing something about that? Can't we fit an American Apparel ad in there somewhere?

  • I'd definitely feel a little less raped right now if there had been some Gingham! in there.

  • "As a moderate Conservative and with Tea Party principles as
    myself"

    That's like saying you're a street-pooping hobo but use your spare change to buy caviar. The Tea Party's principles, tactics and ideology cannot be reconciled with moderate Republican ideals (not that they've been seen in the last 3 years due to you fuckers' cacophony of stupidity and homoerotic terminology). You fail.

  • Guest

    That was a real waste of electrons.

  • You realize you are suffering from psychotic delusions don't you?

  • clafleche

    Sorry, but how is this such a big deal? If anything, it's better for the Border Patrol to check people's papers far away from the border, in a large city like Buffalo, from where they can easily get back home. Have you been to the actual Canadian border? There's not much there, and if you're stranded in the middle of the night, you'd be screwed. If you're in Buffalo, at least you can get a hotel room and then catch a train back to NYC or wherever.

    I've taken the train into Canada twice and checking papers near or at the border is completely normal, just like they check your ID when you drive across the border, or how they check your passport at the airport.

    I'm confused as to why this is troublesome.

  • chlyn

    They're checking people that are traveling from one American city to another - nothing to do with border crossing. Furthermore, they're not checking everyone, just people who fit a profile.

  • Guest

    Wrong answer!  What you get is what you accept.

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