Our border patrol was placed under DHS sometime around 15 years ago, and DHS itself was created as the 'anti-terrorist' security umbrella post 9/11. CBP (custo

Our border patrol was placed under DHS sometime around 15 years ago, and DHS itself was created as the 'anti-terrorist' security umbrella post 9/11. CBP (customs and border protection) became a catch all gestapo to create the largest federal police force outside of the FBI, and of course one of their biggest subjects to 'inspection' in their anti-terror goals (be sure to read this in a George Bush accent) were none other than citizen John Q Public. Another group you may remember in DHS as every air traveler's favorite is none other than the TSA. The CBP is ostensibly primarily interested in the border where the "constitution doesn't (fully) apply." IMO this has caused them to become known a jackboot-thug like entities who terrifyingly are now deployed even within the interior of the US, often with poor discipline to their constitutional restraints. Their special response teams were deployed to Portland during the riots, during which some may remember unmarked vans were grabbing citizens off the street (I have no idea if the vans were DHS). Another favorite of theirs is setting up 'immigration checkpoints' which of course conveniently feature local police (milling in the background) who take advantage of using the stop to catch criminal violations without needing to obtain PC/RAS (silly constitutional stuff) to initiate a stop. The gestapo like roots of CBP has made it the most terrifying, and unrestrained, and poorly monitored of all the federal polices in America. It deserves even more scrutiny that it is already getting. In the words of CBP, last time I invoked the few rights I had at the border, "now I'm going to show you my (CBPs) rights." And oh, they did.... [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33617350#33618162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33617350#33618162