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This is in Colorado Springs. What about the 100 mile border zone where the federal government pretends all rights are suspended?

antonvs 8mo ago
The current government believes in some sort of transitive property of 100 mile border zones. Mathematics hasn't quite caught up with this yet.
howardYouGood 8mo ago
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SAI_Peregrinus 8mo ago
Denver International Airport has a customs zone (as all international airports do), and is only 86 miles from Colorado Springs. AFAIK they've never explicitly restricted their policy to land & sea borders.
- direwolf20 8mo ago
  That's correct, the zone is also 100 miles around every international airport.
- LeifCarrotson 8mo ago
  Historically, they've considered land borders with Canada and Mexico, coastlines on the Pacific, Atlantic, and Gulf of Mexico, as well as the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway to be the edges of the 100 mile "reasonable distance": https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception This page: https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2025/jul/1/understanding-your-constitutional-rights-100-mile-border-zone-primer-non-citizens-united-states-when-confronted-law-enforcement/ https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2025/jul/1/understand... Is one of the few that includes international airports, but then they go on to use the "200 million Americans within 100 miles of a border" statistic that's only accurate if you're only counting the land, sea, and Great Lakes borders. Which is still insane. If you add a 100 mile circle around every international airport, that's basically every major population center in the country. Sounds like yet another absurd misrepresentation, let's see if anyone can call them on it.
pklausler 8mo ago
Having lived (or maybe more accurately "resided") in the Springs for a few years, this story didn't surprise me at all.

antonvs 8mo ago

The current government believes in some sort of transitive property of 100 mile border zones. Mathematics hasn't quite caught up with this yet.

howardYouGood 8mo ago

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SAI_Peregrinus 8mo ago

Denver International Airport has a customs zone (as all international airports do), and is only 86 miles from Colorado Springs. AFAIK they've never explicitly restricted their policy to land & sea borders.

direwolf20 8mo ago
That's correct, the zone is also 100 miles around every international airport.
LeifCarrotson 8mo ago
Historically, they've considered land borders with Canada and Mexico, coastlines on the Pacific, Atlantic, and Gulf of Mexico, as well as the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway to be the edges of the 100 mile "reasonable distance": https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception This page: https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2025/jul/1/understanding-your-constitutional-rights-100-mile-border-zone-primer-non-citizens-united-states-when-confronted-law-enforcement/ https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2025/jul/1/understand... Is one of the few that includes international airports, but then they go on to use the "200 million Americans within 100 miles of a border" statistic that's only accurate if you're only counting the land, sea, and Great Lakes borders. Which is still insane. If you add a 100 mile circle around every international airport, that's basically every major population center in the country. Sounds like yet another absurd misrepresentation, let's see if anyone can call them on it.

pklausler 8mo ago

Having lived (or maybe more accurately "resided") in the Springs for a few years, this story didn't surprise me at all.