A U.S. Border Patrol agent was looking down at him from the aisle . Miriam Aukerman, senior staff attorney at Michigan’s ACLU, said Border Patrol checks far from the border are a violation of Americans’ constitutional right against unreasonable search and seizure. “Border Patrol belongs at the border, not in our communities.”The legal director for the ACLU of Maine, where the Border Patrol now does daily bus checks, is advising citizens not to co-operate. In late January, Border Patrol agents were filmed doing a check on a Greyhound bus from Orlando to Miami, asking passengers to produce identification. Phil Scott, Border Patrol agents boarded a Greyhound in a village after midnight, asking every passenger if they were American.

Source: thestar February 12, 2018 01:18 UTC