At N.H. Border Checkpoints, Immigration, Drug Policy and Politics Collide
By Britta Greene • Sep 6, 2018
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has been running checkpoints in New Hampshire more frequently under the Trump administration, setting up on Interstate 93 near the small towns of Woodstock and Lincoln.
The stated goal of these stops is enforcing immigration law, and to that end, they have been fairly successful. Agents have arrested more than 50 people over the past two years who they determined to be in the country illegally.
But those in support of the stops are often quick to turn attention to a topic other than immigration: drugs and the state’s opioid crisis.
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