Border Sweeps in North Reach Miles Into U.S.

The NYU Immigrant Rights Clinic and other lawyers have been challenging the practices of the Border Patrol along domestic train routes on the Northern border. The Clinic is also engaged in FOIA litigation to obtain documents and statistics. Some of the results of this work are reported today in the New York Times. Nina Bernstein reports that, in 2008, 95% of the arrests made by the Rochester station of Customs and Border protection were made on trains and buses. The story also includes data that three fourths of those arrested in Rochester on these train and bus operations have been in the United States for over a year. In fact, less than one percent had entered within the prior three days. 

UPDATE (9/1):  For a N.Y. Times editorial condemning immigration enforcement on trains and busses, click here.

KJ