sigh debating it on Lemmy or reddit or wherever isn’t going to change their behavior. If you want to argue with them, and you’re not quite white enough to avoid getting harassed by them, here is your food for through…

The authority of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) extends beyond the physical land borders of the United States. A federal regulation establishes a “100-mile zone” where CBP agents have expanded powers to conduct certain enforcement activities. This zone also applies to international airports, which are legally considered the “functional equivalent” of a border.

The 100-Mile Zone and International Airports

It is true that the extended enforcement authority of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) includes the areas surrounding international airports. This is not a new policy but is based on a long-standing legal concept.

• Legal Foundation: The authority is primarily rooted in the Immigration and Nationality Act, Section 287 (8 U.S.C. § 1357). This statute grants federal immigration officers the power to conduct certain enforcement activities without a warrant “within a reasonable distance from any external boundary of the United States.”
• Defining “Reasonable Distance”: The specific distance is defined in the Code of Federal Regulations (8 CFR § 287.1(a)(2)). This regulation officially sets the “reasonable distance” as “within 100 air miles from any external boundary of the United States.”
• The “Functional Equivalent” Doctrine: While the law mentions “external boundary,” courts have consistently held that locations like international airports are the “functional equivalent of the border.” This judicial doctrine allows law enforcement to treat these points of entry as if they were the physical border. The U.S. Supreme Court first articulated this concept in the case of Almeida-Sanchez v. United States, 413 U.S. 266 (1973). The court reasoned that a search at a location that is the functional equivalent of a border, such as the point where a person disembarks from an international flight, is legally similar to a search at the actual border.

According to analysis by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), this zone includes about two-thirds of the U.S. population.

What CBP Agents Can Do in the 100-Mile Zone

Within this zone, CBP’s authority is broader than that of other law enforcement agencies. The specific activities depend on the context, such as at a fixed checkpoint or during a roving patrol.

At Fixed Immigration Checkpoints

CBP can legally operate checkpoints within the 100-mile zone. At these locations, agents can:

• Stop Vehicles: Stop any vehicle to briefly question occupants about their citizenship and immigration status without any suspicion of wrongdoing.
• Request Documentation: Ask for documents that prove a legal right to be in the U.S.
• Conduct Visual Inspections: Visually inspect the vehicle from the outside.
• Refer to Secondary Inspection: Direct any vehicle to a secondary inspection area for further questioning, again without requiring suspicion.

Searches and Property Access

• Access to Private Land: A specific provision, 8 U.S.C. § 1357(a)(3), grants CBP agents access to private lands (but not dwellings) without a warrant within 25 miles of the border to patrol for illegal crossings.

Here is some more for you since you appear to want to argue the legal theory on this…

• Wikipedia: U.S. Border Patrol interior checkpoints
• ACLU: The Constitution in the 100-Mile Border Zone
• Congressional Research Service: The Law of Border Searches of Electronic Devices (discusses the functional equivalent doctrine)

Of course, I am not a practicing lawyer so this isn’t law advice. It’s links to articles and interpretation.

If you really want to pick a fight, go to Austin, San Antonio, anywhere north of that and south of Michigan… Find an ICE raid, and debate it with them.

I’ll have to look for the one I’ve quoted on reddit before, but this one covers the jist of it.

International airports also count as the borders, as well as rivers, lochs, and waterways connecting to the ocean.

Fix the map to include those, and account for population distribution.

Yeah, I’m really torn on this one to be honest.

The video for those who are interested is on YouTube.

Also the 9h15m mark.

I actually found the video…

The video for those who are interested is on YouTube.

Thing is, it’s a girl, she’s the book keeper, and outside of this blog I can’t find the actual quote anywhere.

Tech bro rage is worth it, most are shitheads… But man this whole story sounds off.

Trump is eager to breach Mexico’s sovereignty to attack cartels, officials say - just don’t call it an invasion

It’s a Special Military Operation. When the Mustard Mussolini is done fondling Putin’s balls he’ll have him explain how he pulled it off.

Hey boys, found the Putin Puppet!

So there are two flavors of Republicans…

1. Is the selfish narcissistic egomaniac who will destroy his own country to fulfill his own desires.

2. Are the people you described, pain is good. Hurting people makes them stronger or dead, either way it’s a good outcome.

Yeah except they’ll just blame Hillary’s emails and Obama’s birth certificate or some batshit fuckwadery why they beg for another Trump Stimulus check.

Yeah, that’s literally not how any of this constitutional stuff works.

Free speech is your right to say what you think without the government censoring you. But it has limits and common misunderstandings:

It’s not a “free-for-all.” You can’t yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater just to cause a panic. You can’t tell lies about someone to ruin their reputation (that’s called defamation).

It doesn’t apply to private companies. Your boss can fire you for saying something they don’t like. Twitter (X) can ban you from their platform. A restaurant can kick you out for being rude. These are private entities with their own rules, not the government.

Analogy: The First Amendment means the police can’t arrest you for wearing a shirt that says “The Mayor is a cunt.” However, your boss at a private company can still fire you for wearing that same shirt to work if they think it’s unprofessional.

See shit posts like this are why I’m in favor of dismantling the department of education, if it produces such ignorant outcomes, it creates more harm than good.

At least if you were an uneducated hick from some Boondock wastewater town, I could have a shred of understanding for not having had the opportunity to pay attention in 3rd grade social studies.

Fucking red hat wearing so called constitutionalists who literally don’t know what it fucking says.

That’s not how specific wavelength safety goggles work. You can get both near UV blue light 440nm 5 watt goggles, and infrared depending on the laser.

Problem is they tend to shift the color of light for everything so much that they aren’t pleasant to wear for a long time.

My worry would be getting hit on the skin, a 5 watt 440nm laser hurts, and it’s a deep burning pain that doesn’t go away.

The problem is they’re being shifted to enrich the Nazis.

Bubba in ICE from Louisiana gonna be like “Y’all I was just followin’ orders”

we can’t stop them at the SCOTUS

Wrong

Do tell.

we can’t stop them at the Federal level

Wrong

Again, do tell. Just saying “Wrong” is taking the Trump ‘Fale news’ approach. Back up your argument.

cause gerrymandering is just the wrong thing to do.

Wrong, cause gerrymandering won’t work because we don’t have enough states to gerrymander. I respect the intentions behind it but it is a bad strategy.

Again, what’s the strategy?

I’ve said for years now that getting people to vote at the local levels is what’ll change things, the Texas level of gerrymandering breaks even that…

Remember folks, every vote counts. We did this to ourselves.

I’ve said it before elsewhere but it needs to be heard…

It’s just wild to me continually seeing posts not understanding how this all works, and how it would play out. It’s like the people who thought China paid the tariffs…

The house is almost tied. That’s who passes bills, handles impeachments, some of the most powerful committees are, and who impeaches Presidents…

218 Republicans, 213 Democrats.

Let’s see, take New York for example.

26 representatives total, 19 Democrat and 7 Republican.

5 of those were within 2 points last time their seat was up.

People who think that New York is blue, their vote doesn’t matter, skips the votes for the House and Senate and end up losing a Blue house seat but later complain that nothing changes are literally the fucking problem.

Every. Fucking. State. Is. Like. This.

Apathetic morons who don’t realize that the president is only held accountable by the other branch of government then wave their hands around when they did jack shit to help put people in place to, are the fucking problem.

District 3 of California was lost by 24,000 votes. District 22 was lost by 3,000.

Those two seats in the house, along with the close ones in New York, Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Washington, hell every state… Are what makes the House of Representatives or breaks it.

So, if you think that your vote for president doesn’t matter, so you skip voting and let these other seats slip, yes, you’re a fucking moron who can’t grasp basic concepts of government that are taught in 4th grade.

And don’t get me started on the State House/Senates, how they define voting laws and voting zones and engage in gerrymandering.

Every fucking vote counts.

And until the country realizes it, and starts acting on it, we’ll keep getting the shit we deserve.

House needs a simple majority, and two thirds of the Senate.

Democrats would need ~18 seats.

First, that won’t happen in 2026.

Even the best cases make it hard to win enough by 2028. Which is why impeachment is just not something we can hold out for.

Gerrymandering is part of why this is a problem, which is done at the local level, and again why every vote counts.

How could it play out? Assuming some absurdly weird upside down world just opposite of what we’re living in, this is the only path just looking at the numbers…

Again, Democrats would need to gain 18 net seats. Seats Potentially in Play (Republican Incumbents): This requires looking at seats up in upcoming cycles.

• Class 1 Seats (Up in 2026):
  • Highly Competitive Targets: These would be the first priority. States where Democrats have won statewide recently or that lean only slightly Republican. Examples based on recent political history might include:
    • North Carolina (Budd-R)
    • Alaska (Sullivan-R) - Unique dynamics with ranked-choice voting.
  • Stretch Targets: States that are more Republican but could potentially flip under exceptionally favorable conditions (like the hypothetical turnout).
    • Iowa (Ernst-R)
    • Montana (Daines-R) - Depends heavily on candidate matchups.
    • Kentucky (McConnell-R’s seat - potential retirement changes dynamics)
    • Kansas (Marshall-R)
    • South Carolina (Graham-R)
  • Very Difficult Targets: Solidly Republican states requiring overwhelming Democratic turnout and significant shifts among other voters.
    • Texas (Cornyn-R)
    • Mississippi (Wicker-R)
    • Alabama (Tuberville-R)
    • West Virginia (Capito-R)
    • Oklahoma (Mullin-R - Special election winner)
    • Wyoming (Lummis-R)
    • Idaho (Risch-R)
    • Arkansas (Cotton-R)
    • Nebraska (Ricketts-R)
    • South Dakota (Rounds-R)
    • Louisiana (Cassidy-R) - Jungle primary system.
• Class 2 Seats (Up in 2028): (Looking further ahead)
  • Highly Competitive Targets:
    • Maine (Collins-R) - Often competitive, depends on matchup.
    • Georgia (Perdue/Ossoff dynamic showed competitiveness, depends who holds it after '26 potentially) - Assuming GOP holds a seat here.
  • Stretch Targets:
    • Michigan (Peters-D currently, but listing potential GOP flips back if one happened hypothetically before 2028) - Generally leans D, but could be contested.
    • New Hampshire (Shaheen-D currently) - Generally leans D, but listing potential GOP flips back.
  • Very Difficult Targets: (Many solidly Republican states)
    • Tennessee (Hagerty-R)
    • Alaska (Murkowski-R historically, depends on dynamics)
    • North Carolina (Tillis-R)
    • Iowa (Grassley-R seat potentially)
    • Texas (Cruz-R)
    • Kentucky (Paul-R)
    • And many others similar to the 2026 list (SC, AL, MS, WY, ID, NE, SD, KS, WV, OK).

It’s going to take an absolutely historic level of pain to both drive enough people to vote MAGA out to make this change though.

The amount that’s being excused, sanewashed, and just drowned out with other absurdities…

We’re on all on this shit ride until some new wildcard comes into play.

No impeachment, no Supreme Court, no guardrail is going to change that.

Something new and unaccounted for is the only feasible catalyst.

Aw well fuck, I guess you’re right.

Ok boys, we can’t stop them at the SCOTUS, we can’t stop them at the Federal level, might as well pack it in, cause gerrymandering is just the wrong thing to do.

We’ll let Schumer write another sternly written letter, maybe it’ll work this time.

/s

And their camera’s processing and memory cards are all mounted on the windshield for some stupid reason.

Having a small discreet 4 or 6 channel camera that writes to an SSD hidden inside the car and has a 4g radio attachment, or even connects to a hotspot would be massive.

Mmhmm compare that with the sales numbers, then compare against any company in history which has had a similar sales pattern for a publicly traded company.

Yeah, except for Tesla, how the fuck man.