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Michigan Border Patrol are more concerned with brown people
Last edited Fri Mar 26, 2021, 02:22 AM - Edit history (1)
They're there to watch our Northern border, but they seem to focus on dark skin citizens.
Over Two Thirds Of Drivers Arrested By U.S. Border Patrol In Michigan Were Stopped For Looking At Squad Cars Funny
Erin Marquis
Detroit is home to the busiest land border crossing in North America, responsible for roughly 27 percent of all merchandise trade between Canada and the U.S. Naturally it has a robust U.S. Border Patrol presence, but the lengths that this federal law enforcement agency will take to stop anyone who even looks at them funny should be horrifying to every civil liberty-loving American.
This entire report just released by the American Civil Liberties Union about the U.S. Border Patrol’s actions in Michigan is just so jaw-dropping awful I had a hard time figuring out where to start. How about we kick off with this bit from the Detroit News:
More than 98% of Border Patrol arrests in Michigan and a small portion of Ohio targeted longtime Michigan residents of Latin American descent rather than people trying to illegally enter the United States from Canada, according to an American Civil Liberties Union report.
The report, produced after a federal judge ordered U.S. Customs and Border Protection to turn over arrest records from 2012 to 2019, shows just 1.3% of arrests involved people attempting to illegally enter the country. It also showed that agents made arrests hundreds of miles from international borders and nearly half of all people arrested were U.S. citizens or documented people.
The rest here at Jalopnik:
https://jalopnik.com/over-two-thirds-of-drivers-arrested-by-u-s-border-patr-1846551993
Erin Marquis
Detroit is home to the busiest land border crossing in North America, responsible for roughly 27 percent of all merchandise trade between Canada and the U.S. Naturally it has a robust U.S. Border Patrol presence, but the lengths that this federal law enforcement agency will take to stop anyone who even looks at them funny should be horrifying to every civil liberty-loving American.
This entire report just released by the American Civil Liberties Union about the U.S. Border Patrol’s actions in Michigan is just so jaw-dropping awful I had a hard time figuring out where to start. How about we kick off with this bit from the Detroit News:
More than 98% of Border Patrol arrests in Michigan and a small portion of Ohio targeted longtime Michigan residents of Latin American descent rather than people trying to illegally enter the United States from Canada, according to an American Civil Liberties Union report.
The report, produced after a federal judge ordered U.S. Customs and Border Protection to turn over arrest records from 2012 to 2019, shows just 1.3% of arrests involved people attempting to illegally enter the country. It also showed that agents made arrests hundreds of miles from international borders and nearly half of all people arrested were U.S. citizens or documented people.
The rest here at Jalopnik:
https://jalopnik.com/over-two-thirds-of-drivers-arrested-by-u-s-border-patr-1846551993
