By Nina Bernstein, New York Times
August 29, 2010
ROCHESTER — The Lake Shore Limited runs between Chicago and New York City without crossing the Canadian border. But when it stops at Amtrak stations in western New York State, armed Border Patrol agents routinely board the train, question passengers about their citizenship and take away noncitizens who cannot produce satisfactory immigration papers.
“Are you a U.S. citizen?” agents asked one recent morning, moving through a Rochester-bound train full of dozing passengers at a station outside Buffalo. “What country were you born in?” [...]
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/nyregion/30border.html?_r=1&ref=us
When the Border Patrol Comes Aboard
By Nin Bernstein, New York Times blog
August 30, 2010
Nina Bernstein has an article on the front page today about American Border Patrol agents who board trains running completely within the United States looking for undocumented immigrants. Here is her first-person experience on such a train in upstate New York. If you’ve had an encounter with the Border Patrol, let us know in the comment box below.
Traveling from New York City to Buffalo on Amtrak’s Lake Shore Limited last month, I wondered what I would say if Border Patrol agents showed up on the train at Syracuse or Rochester and asked, “Are you a U.S. citizen?” [...]
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http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/when-the-border-patrol-comes-aboard/?ref=nyregion
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