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i’d have to go back and double check my facts here, but i seem to remember border patrol agents going after protesters in Portland during the George Floyd protests and something to do with Portland being within this 100 mile zone.

again, i’d have to go back and double check this.

edit: unfortunately i’m at work and due at a meeting so i can’t deepdive, but here’s a couple of links expanding on agents, Portland, and the 100 mile zone (the latimes is an oped but it links to more info):

https://www.cato.org/blog/portland-paramilitarization-border...

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-07-22/border-patr...



President Trump certainly shouldn't have deputized CBP tactical teams to do internal law enforcement tasks inside cities, but it's worth pointing out that CBP's authority to conduct routine law enforcement under the same authority as, say, a local police officer is a much grayer area than this "100 mile Constitution free zone" stuff. CBP shouldn't be grabbing rioters or protesters or activists off the street at all, obviously, but if they're doing it based on the same probable cause a local police officer would be using for the same stop, they're not implicating the border search exception.




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