This is the Kator Daily Podcast for Thursday, February 1st, 2018.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The powers of customs and border patrol are massive.

They have a wide birth to exploit the so-called border exception to the Fourth

Amendment, allowing them to violate the rights of Americans within 100 miles of the border.

That's where most Americans live. And there's good evidence that CBP doesn't have the same checks on their authority as other

federal agencies.

Kito's Alex Durasta and Matthew Feeney comment.

When did CBP, when was that created or what did it grow out of?

So CBP grew out of a reorganization of the federal government in the Department of Homeland Security umbrella. So there's CBP, which includes Border Patrol,

and then there is Immigration and Customs Enforcement,

which are Interior Enforcement Officers.

They go inside the United States and try to identify

illegal immigrants for deportation and there's US citizenship and immigration

services which processes visas. All right so what is their actual role as best we know?

So the actual role of Customs and Border Protection is twofold.

One of them is to process people entering the United States through ports of entry,

making sure that they're not, you know, when they come in either as visitors or on other visas,

that they are the people they actually say they are checking passports, taking

biometric information, checking it against, you know, very briefly against

government databases and other things like that at the Port of Entry.

The other role is Border Patrol, which is patrolling between the ports of entry in the United States

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