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Bus Driver Tells Passengers Only U.S. Citizens Can Ride

Manc Skipper said:
Show reports from that time of border agents roaming the country exceeding their authority..
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They are not exceeding their authority. US Customs and Border Agents can travel wherever in the country the job takes them. Traditionally, border agents have worked every inland navigable river under Federal jurisdiction, regardless of the current administration. You can leave your partisan politics at the door.

And of others criticizing the bus driver, any private business can deny doing business with anyone when not in violation of the Civil Rights Act. Any business can refrain from doing business with non citizens. Stupid, and cutting off one's nose to spite the face, yet lawful.
 
Barnacle said:
Another hissy fit post by liberals about something that has been going on under Obama and prior presidents ...

and nobody gave a **** about it ... until Trump got elected.


:lol:
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Bull****.

When has it ever been necessary to be a citizen of the US to ride a stupid bus? Never, not under any of the presidents. Not ever.
 
holbritter said:
Greyhound officials said they are following the law by letting Border Patrol agents question their passengers.
But the ACLU said Greyhound has the right and responsibility to demand a warrant for Border Patrol officers to board its buses.

So the ACLU is going to tell Greyhound how to run their business? Pftt.
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Oh, no, that's the job of the Border Patrol.

Right?
 
Dittohead not! said:
And, I've seen busloads of people in Yosemite, all taking pictures like crazy and speaking Japanese. Were they actually American citizens?
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You should have interrogated them...
 
OldFatGuy said:
I always carry proof of citizenship when traveling by bus. You never know when a bus will be hijacked and you end up in an unfriendly country like Tahiti, the Jersey Shore, South Hampton Long Island or Malibu, California. :doh

Those people get damned vicious over beach rights.
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The bold are all in the United States... Geography is not your strong suit. :lol:
 
Dittohead not! said:
Post 16 is about "undocumented immigrants." This one is about citizens.
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Post: Another hissy fit post by liberals about something that has been going on under Obama and prior presidents ...

and nobody gave a **** about it ... until Trump got elected.


He responded and asked: Show reports from that time of border agents roaming the country exceeding their authority..

What the links in #16 showed: Border patrol checking ids on buses in 2011 and 2015.

Keep up please.
 
It is downright frightening that a border patrol, a sheriff, any other law enforcement officer can start demanding proof of citizenship, or any other sort of official papers that really aren't required for the situation, and we have people supporting that action and saying that we should just sit back and take it.

And then, these same people call themselves "conservatives," and want to claim that "liberals" are a threat to liberty.

Have we really come so far from our ideals of a free society that this sort of thing has become acceptable? We've already lost some of our freedom to the so called "war on drugs." It appears that now we have a war in illegal immigrants, and that the real casualty in that war will also be basic freedoms.

If have news for the self described conservatives, who are really extreme authoritarians: There are ten amendments in the Bill of Rights, not just one. The Second is not the only one under attack.

Oh, sure, I know the meme: The second keeps the others safe. That's a whole lot of bull. No, the fourth and fifth amendments, the ones really under attack currently, aren't going to be saved by the second. We aren't ready for armed revolution, at least not yet. We should be about ready for a peaceful revolution at the ballot box, howevdr.
 
holbritter said:
Post: Another hissy fit post by liberals about something that has been going on under Obama and prior presidents ...

and nobody gave a **** about it ... until Trump got elected.


He responded and asked: Show reports from that time of border agents roaming the country exceeding their authority..

What the links in #16 showed: Border patrol checking ids on buses in 2011 and 2015.

Keep up please.
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Please do show us where a border patrol agent got on a bus and demanded to see proof of citizenship before Trump started his absurd "zero tolerance" nonsense. If you can't please just admit you were wrong. You don't have to be a citizen to ride a bus.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Bus Driver Tells Passengers Only U.S. Citizens Can Ride As Border Patrol Agent Looks On






So, you have to be an American citizen to ride a bus in the US, or is it just in Maine? I rode a bus in Canada without being a citizen of that nation.


And, I've seen busloads of people in Yosemite, all taking pictures like crazy and speaking Japanese. Were they actually American citizens?


Maybe it's only in Maine.
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Now if the driver had said only people with a legal right to be in the USA can ride this bus due to the actions of the border patrol agent, he might have been right but to say only US citizens can ride a bus the bought a ticket for is BS.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Please do show us where a border patrol agent got on a bus and demanded to see proof of citizenship before Trump started his absurd "zero tolerance" nonsense. If you can't please just admit you were wrong. You don't have to be a citizen to ride a bus.
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Read the links.
 
holbritter said:
Stop being obtuse.
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Dittohead not! said:
Bull****.

When has it ever been necessary to be a citizen of the US to ride a stupid bus? Never, not under any of the presidents. Not ever.
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During WWII. Bus riders using Greyhound and their competitors for intercity routes were required to show proof of citizenship when purchasing a ticket. An executive order from the Department of War. And, without a doubt racism and bigotry played a role. The restriction, and a similar one for train tickets, were engaged to inhibit spies and saboteurs. The paranoia of wartime. Buses and trains were common methods for intercity and interstate travel. Airlines were limited to the very wealthy before and more so during the war.

Our family is Eurasian. When my father was on a 10 day compassion leave during Sept 1944, his father was dying, and two of his older brothers had been recently killed in action, he had hitched a ride on a mail plane returning to Pennsylvania from South Carolina where he had first landed in a military cargo plane. When he purchased a bus ticket for the rest of the journey the ticket seller nodded to two deputy sheriffs who demanded proof of my father's citizenship. He was in full dress uniform, his ribbons, purple heart and silver star pin on his jacket, Captain bars on his shoulders. He had dressed formal for his father to see. The told him they wanted "to make sure he wasn't a nip." He gave them a lecture about the 442. One of them told him "chinks aren't welcome here either, and we don't need to hear what chinks say." Two seconds later he was on the ground unconscious, his buddy still standing with his mouth agape. My father said he looked him in the eye, got on the bus and had a pleasant ride home to NYC. We were allies with the Chinese during the war. Most of Jimmy Doolittle's surviving men were rescued by the Chinese peasants and guerrilla groups fighting the Japanese.

Bigotry knows no boundaries. And we all know how dangerous those Canadians from across the Maine border can be. They look just like us. You can spot them when they speak, starting every sentence with "sorry." You know, statements like "Sorry, your wife is so ugly." :)
 
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