US Border Patrol sets up random checkpoints in Michigan
By Joanne Laurier 19 November 2002
As part of the Bush administration's ongoing attack on democratic rights, the US Border Patrol began setting up rotating and unannounced checkpoints November 12 in southeast Michigan near the US-Canadian frontier. The Border Patrol, part of the Department of Justice's Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), claims authority to establish traffic checkpoints that can stop and interrogate all motorists and their passengers.
During the course of last week, the Border Patrol set up three checkpoints in St Clair and southern Wayne counties, resulting in one arrest on a charge of illegal entry into the US. The checkpoints are expected to continue in southeast Michigan and officials said they might be organized on the state's Upper Peninsula next summer.
Jim Crawford, the US Border Patrol Intelligence Agent for the Detroit Sector, told a reporter from the WSWS. "The checkpoints are now a definite thing-part of our standard operating procedure. Federal law allows us to set up a checkpoint within 100 miles of an international border."...
<http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/nov2002/bord-n19.shtml> -- Yoshie
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