The Border Patrol’s jurisdiction isn’t confined to southwestern deserts or isolated northern checkpoints: Federal law empowers agents to board vehicles and vessels “within a reasonable distance from any external boundary of the United States,” whether inland or offshore. “Reasonable” is 100 miles as the crow flies—meaning some 200 million people live within an expansive border zone.
Yeah.
Usually I can be pretty aloof talking politics on Lemmy with the bad faith people, but having had some distant second hand contact with the reality and I think some concept of what it might become, under Trump 2, means that the people who say they don’t want to vote Democratic because they care about immigration can sometimes make me feel genuine rage.