toobfreak
Tungsten/Glass Member
Greyhound to stop allowing Border Patrol agents to conduct immigration checks on buses without warrant
Let's get real. Terrorist attack planning is all about coming from our southern border. OK Democrat's let them smuggle a nuke across our southern border and blow up a city. Bloods on your hands. Nuke device is size of a fucking grapefruit. Can come into our country in a gym bag and be left in a bus terminal. Idiots.
I have mixed feelings about this.
- OTOH you can't just have a cadre of illegals or terrorists commandeer a bus in Mexico and drive it freely into our country with unknown intentions.
So I think both sides have a case. Greyhound bears some responsibility (perhaps working with local officials) to ask for and see SOME documentation which indicates legal rights to come into the country before boarding. Visa or some such paperwork. Then upon reaching the border, passengers must go through a checkpoint where they are officially screened. Those that have some question or lapse in documents then wait to go before a judge to have the matter decided. If they fail to meet minimum requirements, they are turned back.
- But OTOH, are Border Agents really equipped to determine legal status and have sole power on a bus?
The particulars are not at the border or even checkpoints.
The Border Patrol is currently doing the search of the bus in the Greyhound station, deep inside the US, but still within 100 miles of the border.
Like I said, this doesn't belong in the bus, at Greyhound, 100 miles inland, it should be done at a checkpoint AT THE BORDER, by officials under open, controlled conditions.