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	Podcast:		Maine Things Considered
	Episode:		ACLU Lawyer Says Border Patrol's Random Stops Are An 'Intrusion On Personal Liberties'
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:36
	Publish Date:		2018-07-06 16:45:36
	Description:		Over the past several weeks, agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection have carried out random stops of people to question them about their citizenship, miles away from the nearest border. On June 21, two Bangor Daily News reporters, recorded audio from a Maine checkpoint on I-95 and posted it on the paper's website . The policy isn't new. It's based on rules put in place in 1952 that allow the agency to randomly stop people within 100 miles of any U.S. "external boundary." Critics have claimed that use of the checks has increased during the Trump administration, although the CBP doesn't report those numbers. What is new, however, is the number of people catching the stops on video and posting them on social media. And in many cases, the videos reveal confusion about what the rules are. The ACLU, a major force of opposition to the stops, has also been educating the public about their rights in these situations. Emma Bond is a staff attorney with the ACLU of Maine, which publishes
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