NH ACLU calls border patrol's bus passenger questioning 'morally repugnant'

By TODD FEATHERS
New Hampshire Union Leader
June 15. 2018 1:58PM

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent’s questioning of passengers boarding a private bus in Maine last month is “morally repugnant,” according to New Hampshire ACLU Legal Director Gilles Bissonnette.

In an incident filmed by one of the passengers, a border agent went down the line of people waiting to board a Concord Coach Lines bus in Bangor, Maine, on Memorial Day and asked them if they were American citizens.

When one passenger asked a Concord Coach Lines employee if passengers have to be citizens to board the bus, the employee replied “Yes.”

“It is inexcusable for Concord Coach to allow border patrol agents to question their own passengers about their citizenship and immigration status,” Bissonnette said in a statement. “People should be able to take the bus without fear of unfounded interrogation and deportation. Concord Coach has the right to say no to border patrol.”

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