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
unblock
(52,257 posts)sandensea
(21,639 posts)and of course get away with it:
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)I presume ACLU is filing a suit. I sure as hell hope so.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)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)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.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Their own jobs too b
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)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)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)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)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.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)TenHouseCats
(52 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)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)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).