Current Events > One woman who knew her rights forced Border Patrol off a Greyhound Bus

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On June 7, Tiana Smalls, whose Facebook profile describes her as owner of Fire Flower Beauty Company, was riding a Greyhound bus from Bakersfield, California to Las Vegas, Nevada. As the bus approached an agricultural checkpoint at the Nevada state line, Ms. Smalls said the driver made an unusual announcement: We are being boarded by Border Patrol. Please be prepared to show your documentation upon request.

Ms. Smalls immediately reacted.

According to a description she posted on Facebook, she stood up and loudly said, This is a violation of your Fourth Amendment rights. You dont have to show them *shit*!!! She then used Google Translate to repeat her message in Spanish, reassuring the Spanish-speaking woman sitting beside her and probably countless other fellow passengers.

Border Patrol agents boarded the bus and started to ask the passengers for their documentation. Ms. Smalls stood up again and shouted, You have NO RIGHT to ask me for anything! This is harassment and racial profiling! We are not within 100 miles of a border so [these agents] have no legal right or jurisdiction here!

Ms. Smalls simple and courageous act of resistance was enough. The Border Patrol agents, realizing that they would face an uphill battle, immediately retreated, telling the driver to continue on.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials claim sweeping authority to operate in the interiorof the United States. Their basis for doing so is a federal statute that purports to allow CBP officers to undertake certain enforcement activities without a warrant within a reasonable distance from any external boundary of the United States. A federal regulation adopted in 1953 inexplicably defines a reasonable distance as up to 100 air miles from any external boundary of the United States an area that sweeps up nearly two-thirds of the U.S. population (200 million people), nine of our 10 largest cities, and several entire states (including Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, and New Jersey). And still CBP cheats its way to more interior encroachment, for example, by claiming that the Great Lakes shared with Canada are functional equivalents of the border so that all of Michiganand Chicago are in its reach.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/ice-and-border-patrol-abuses/one-woman-who-knew-her-rights-forced-border

This is good info for anyone who ever finds themself in a similar situation. Btw why is Border Patrol trying to sneakily violate peoples constitutional rights? Shouldnt President Trump be looking into this?

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Haha nice. Way to stick it to the Border Patrol.

If it was regular trigger happy cops they probably would have arrested the woman and Sandra Bland'd her or massacred the whole bus.

Fuck pigs.

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Shablagoo posted...

Shouldnt President Trump be looking into this?

he don't care. just wants them illegals out.
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Big move by Ms. Smalls

kingdrake2 posted...

he don't care. just wants them illegals out.

But I thought conservatives say they defend the constitution?

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What? Some form of law enforcement in this country being shady and abusing their power? Color me motherfucking shocked.

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Brave and bold.

We need more of that.

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But did they have documents?

This sounds like a loophole some can jump through.

And no I doubt I'll get into this situation unless they might think I'm a IRA operative planning to blow something up.


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Good, law enforcement deserves to be called out when they overstep their bounds.

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I for one love how small our government has become. Thanks GOP!

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Shablagoo posted...

According to a description she posted on Facebook, she stood up and loudly said, This is a violation of your Fourth Amendment rights. You dont have to show them *s****!!! She then used Google Translate to repeat her message in Spanish, reassuring the Spanish-speaking woman sitting beside her and probably countless other fellow passengers.

Does "You don't have to show them shit" translate well in Spanish? Especially through Google Translate?

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Shablagoo posted...

But I thought conservatives say they defend the constitution?

It's called hypocrisy. Everyone knows they only defend the constitution when it benefits them or the rich people that bought them into office.
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Good for her.
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CableZL posted...

This is a violation of your Fourth Amendment rights. You dont have to show them *s****

Esto es una violacin de sus derechos de la Cuarta Enmienda. No tienes que mostrarles [Spanish word for shit, censoring because not sure if moddable].

is what I got from Google Translate, assuming she used the exact words in the article. IMO that would definitely get the point across, yeah.

edit: hopefully she knows how to pronounce words in Spanish lol, though even if she doesnt Google will play audio of the translation if you want.

Calwings posted...

It's called hypocrisy. Everyone knows they only defend the constitution when it benefits them or the rich people that bought them into office.

True dat, I want to see some conservative users defend it though lol

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You go, girl!
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how has no one mentioned yet that this article's writing style sounds like the birth of a new copypasta

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