Under Trump, Border Patrol arrests immigrants far from U.S.-Mexico border
Story by Marianne LeVine, Derek Hawkins • 3h
The Trump administration is increasingly relying on Border Patrol agents to help carry out the president’s mass deportation plan and arrest immigrants in cities far from the nation’s southern border — a departure from the agency’s traditional role that some lawyers and advocates consider alarming.
In the past month, Border Patrol agents have swarmed a Los Angeles park on foot and horseback; taken immigrants into custody at a New York City courthouse; raided a cannabis farm in California’s Ventura County; and detained day laborers at Home Depot parking lots as far north as Sacramento.
The Border Patrol has typically deployed most of its agents to the roughly 2,000-mile stretch of southwest border spanning Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. Their primary mission involves guarding borders between ports of entry, where they are tasked with intercepting drugs and weapons, preventing human trafficking, and stopping people from trying to enter the country illegally. Now as border crossings plummet to historic lows, Border Patrol agents are arresting immigrants hundreds of miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/under-trump-border-patrol-arrests-immigrants-far-from-u-s-mexico-border/ar-AA1J3kBb?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=248092a29cd84804a85aa5a6cd9b9c6e&ei=105
