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Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 07:45 PM Jun 2018

Bus Driver Tells Passengers Only U.S. Citizens Can Ride As Border Patrol Agent Looks On

Source: Huffington Post

06/16/2018 07:32 pm ET

Remember: You are not obligated to answer questions about your citizenship just to ride a bus.

By Sebastian Murdock


A bus driver in Maine told passengers they needed to be U.S. citizens to ride on a bus while an immigration official questioned passengers’ citizenship.

The incident happened in the city of Bangor over Memorial Day weekend, the ACLU of New Hampshire said in a video statement.

The footage shows passengers being confronted by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent.

“Are you folks U.S. citizens?” the CBP agent asks.

Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bus-driver-tells-passengers-only-us-citizens-can-ride-as-border-patrol-agent-looks-on_us_5b256034e4b0f9178a9d9621

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Bus Driver Tells Passengers Only U.S. Citizens Can Ride As Border Patrol Agent Looks On (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jun 2018 OP
Ihre papiere, bitte! unblock Jun 2018 #1
How I wish someone could do this to these Trumpenfuhrer thugs, sandensea Jun 2018 #9
This is so wrong. RandomAccess Jun 2018 #2
this has already been well settled grantcart Jun 2018 #12
OMG - So Tourists Are No Longer Welcome In America DallasNE Jun 2018 #3
Exactly why that is so stupid hurting treestar Jun 2018 #4
OMG is right. Is it a law that only citizens can ride a bus? Since when? OMG. nt Honeycombe8 Jun 2018 #11
Maybe the driver was warning the passengers off? keithbvadu2 Jun 2018 #5
One thing you can say about Donald tRump, pazzyanne Jun 2018 #6
So we are now officially blue-wave Jun 2018 #7
Looks like Concord Coach Lines at least stated that the driver misspoke. Greyhound... debsy Jun 2018 #8
Jaw dropping how esily the Gestapo can get others to help them trample our rights. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2018 #16
So no more tourists in America? Dawson Leery Jun 2018 #10
Which international border is bangor near, anyway? nt. TenHouseCats Jun 2018 #13
Due to the moron Americans' favorable view of BigmanPigman Jun 2018 #14
damn, looks heaven05 Jun 2018 #15

grantcart

(53,061 posts)
12. this has already been well settled
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 10:19 PM
Jun 2018

The Supreme Court has ruled that within 100 miles of the Border the Border Patrol can set up stop points and ask motorists, pedestrians and passengers on public conveyance a simple question "Are you citizens of the US".

At that point people can choose not to answer (in which the Border Patrol Agent would have to have other probable cause to detain for further investigation), or respond that they were citizens, or tourists, or permanent residents.

The bus driver was the one in error. Anyone can, of course, get on a bus if they pay for the ticket. Greyhound, and all public transport have to follow lawful orders given by law enforcement.

DallasNE

(7,403 posts)
3. OMG - So Tourists Are No Longer Welcome In America
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 08:14 PM
Jun 2018

And, presumably, cannot stay in a Trump hotel. Does this just apply to Canadians since this happened in Maine? Trump must be really pissed at PM JT.

pazzyanne

(6,556 posts)
6. One thing you can say about Donald tRump,
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 09:04 PM
Jun 2018

he's an equal opportunity discriminator. ICE checking Canadians is unbelievable. In Minnesota and North Dakota, both states that I have lived in, Canadians and their money have always been welcomed with open arms, and US citizens have been welcomed in Canada. Disgusting turn of events for both borders.

blue-wave

(4,356 posts)
7. So we are now officially
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 09:52 PM
Jun 2018

living in Hitler's Germany, Stalin's or Putin's Russia and Pol Pot's Cambodia. Just take your pick of any despot. And of course, Trump's America. What in the hell are we becoming as a nation?

debsy

(530 posts)
8. Looks like Concord Coach Lines at least stated that the driver misspoke. Greyhound...
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 09:56 PM
Jun 2018

officials, however, "said they are following the law by letting Border Patrol agents question their passengers. But the ACLU said Greyhound has the right and responsibility to demand a warrant for Border Patrol officers to board its buses." Greyhound should definitely be boycotted and Concord Coach should be sent a clear warning that they will be if they don't implement a policy such as the ACLU enunciated.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
16. Jaw dropping how esily the Gestapo can get others to help them trample our rights.
Mon Jun 18, 2018, 01:52 AM
Jun 2018


Somebody gonna have to sue the bus company, just to get their attention.

The minute they started this crap, with TSA, we could this happening.

People are being trained to get used to full body searches, to show papers when they travel, to give up personal information in their phones and computers.
Gonna be real hard to get any of this reversed.

BigmanPigman

(51,611 posts)
14. Due to the moron Americans' favorable view of
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 10:40 PM
Jun 2018

Canada has dropped 30 percentage points in a few WEEKS! Also due to him, fewer Canadians are using and buying American products and tourism as a whole is down. We are royally fucked...all the damage he has done in less than 1 1/2 years. We will take forever to recover, if ever. Bill Maher and I agree on this one.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
15. damn, looks
Sun Jun 17, 2018, 08:19 AM
Jun 2018

Last edited Sun Jun 17, 2018, 08:51 AM - Edit history (1)

like we are ALL headed for a 21st century country of nazis with the nazis like this BP, bus driver and enabled by the 21st century Fuhrer masquerading as a potus now residing in the WHITE house at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Slaves built a house that has been the house that AA could never ever revere. That's irony in the highest degree of ameriKKKan hypocrisy.

Well as the brown-skinned immigrants go, so shall all brown skinned people in a country quickly being turned into a 21st-century paradise for nazis. Comey, the electoral college, putin and 66million plus ameriKKKans made it possible for the Hitler clone now called potus to put ALL brown skinned people on notice that our lives mean shit to him and the AG he installed to turn back the clock on the fight for equality of all americans.

White racism and murder are now being practised openly with a hateful virulence, AGAIN, that I have not seen in decades. Have no doubt, eventually, all NOT rich, white, mostly male and/or a trump ass licker, like a dr. carson et al; have been put on notice they WILL SUFFER also. Just most don't believe it.

I don't think the German people in 1933 knew that a Bremen, a city where a bombing turned into a fiery holocaust that was only experienced by the Japanese of that time. Or that the almost total destruction of their country was in their future(s).

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