Do you carry proof of citizenship when riding the bus on a domestic trip?

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/us/politics/trump-border-patrol-searches.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

In the NY Times today - “… Border patrol steps up searches far from the border”. They’ve been using drug sniffing dogs too.

Stephen I. Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law, said the department had occasionally pushed the limits of its authority to conduct searches without a warrant far from the border.

“Inevitably, one of these cases is going to get to the Supreme Court, which will have to revisit the seemingly limitless government authority the department claims it has,” Mr. Vladeck said. “It cannot be the case that anyone who lives or travels within 100 miles of the border has no Fourth Amendment rights.”

A measure to limit that distance to 25 miles passed the Senate in 2013 but was rejected by the House; it was proposed after Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, was stopped by the Border Patrol at an immigration checkpoint.

The legal dispute in Texas challenges the Border Patrol’s authority to search private property without permission. By law, officers can go onto private property within 25 miles of the border without permission from the owner

I wonder if Sen. Leahy was stopped in VT or somewhere else.

In the Texas case, a man owning a ranch 35 miles from the border has had ICE agents crawling over his property all the time. He and his family members have been stopped. The last straw was when he found that they had left a surveillance camera in one of his trees. He took the camera and sued. Don’t mess with Texas, lol.