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The ACLU page includes the following claim: > And still CBP cheats its way to more interior encroachment, for example, by claiming that the Great Lakes shared
by antonvs 8y ago
The ACLU page includes the following claim:
> 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 Michigan and Chicago are in its reach.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to provide any support for that, but presumably they have some basis for saying that.
- tptacek 8y agoTheir basis is that they have documents from CBP claiming authority over a "functional equivalent" of the border, but they do not themselves agree with that assessment. There's a page they have with documents from a FOIA lawsuit where they more or less say that directly.
- torstenvl 8y agoLake Michigan is not shared with Canada. Chicago is not within 100 miles of Lake Huron, Lake Erie, or Lake Superior.
- tomjakubowski 8y agoI'm sure it's not legally relevant but, hydrologically speaking, Michigan and Huron are a single lake.