Thursday, January 8, 2009

Sen. Patrick Lehy Comments On Homeland Security Checkpoints

clipped from leahy.senate.gov
I’m worried only because we don’t have the adequate number of people
on the border. We sometimes have hours, hours wait, just for tourist to
go across the border. And of course it will get worse once it starts to
require more paperwork. Many of the lanes aren’t open, we are short of
people there. But somehow we can put symbolic checkpoints 100 miles from
the border.
It’s interesting - I went through one of those symbolic checkpoints
in the state of New York driving back here. It was about 125 miles from
the border. In a car with license plate one on it from Vermont. With
little letters underneath it that said US Senate. We were stopped and
ordered to get out of the car and prove my citizenship. And I said “what
authority are you acting under?” and one of your agents pointed to his
gun and said “that’s all the authority I need.” Encouraging way to enter
our country.
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