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What is the rationale for 100 miles? Curious if anyone knows, or if its an arbitrary number a lawmaker decided?
by 1121redblackgo 11mo ago
What is the rationale for 100 miles? Curious if anyone knows, or if its an arbitrary number a lawmaker decided?
- nabla9 11mo agoThe 1946 statute gave CBP the authority to stop and search all vehicles within a “reasonable distance”. CBP defined the reasonable to be 100 miles and it stuck. It's just federal regulation interpreting the law and courts have blessed it.
- dboreham 11mo agoSupreme Court rulings it seems. This is the law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1357# https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1357# But it only says "any reasonable distance". SCOTUS appears to have come up with the 100 mile limit in various cases over time.