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My name is David Hamburger.

I'm director of operations here at Persuasion and earlier this week I published a piece

entitled Border Insecurity, Border Patrol's sweeping powers inside the United States

lack accountability and perpetuate racial profiling these, especially given the acute humanitarian situation at the southern border,

there's a lot of discussion about border patrol as it takes place at the actual border.

But less discussed and perhaps less known is the power that Border Patrol, the law enforcement agency, has to conduct

immigration stops not only at the border, but indeed up to 100 miles away from from the border and not only the southern

border but the northern border and the coastal borders of the US as well.

Their power is not only expansive and geographic scope which is one thing.

It's also expansive in terms of the authority

it gives Border Patrol agents.

They're entitled, according to the law,

to investigate whether or not individuals, citizens,

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