Border Patrol Agents Shut Down Highways in Maine and New Hampshire With Checkpoints

[Right_in_Virginia]

Border Patrol Agents Shut Down Highways in Maine and New Hampshire With Checkpoints
NY Times, Jun 22, 2018, Matthew Haag

For 11 hours on Wednesday, drivers who wanted to travel through a remote stretch of northern Maine were asked a simple question: Where were you born?

Border Patrol agents closed off all southbound lanes of Interstate 95 north of Bangor, Me., stopping drivers, searching outside their cars with drug-sniffing dogs and refusing to let them pass until they disclosed their citizenship. At least one encounter was captured on cellphone video.

“Good afternoon, ma’am, U.S. Border Patrol immigration inspection,” an officer told two reporters with the Bangor Daily News who had heard about the checkpoint, about 80 miles from the Canadian border, and decided to drive to it and record their interaction. “What country are you a citizen of?”

The driver protested. “If you want to continue down the road, then yes, ma’am, we need to know what country you’re a citizen of,” the agent said.

More:  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/us/border-checkpoints.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

[TomSea]

Good!

Drug sniffing dogs, they allegedly have a drug problem in that part of the country. Of course, it is everywhere. Our government doing some good for once.