Border Patrol Expansion - 100 miles from all borders
In NW Washington, the Border Patrol just built a $12 million office/jail.
So far they have chased a suspect into a river where he drown, sent a US citizen to the ICE jail in Seattle, arrested a man who has maintained a vegetable stand for years, and likely spied on my neighbor from her backyard at midnight. They also sit in front of the grocery where Hispanic people shop and hang out watching farm hands with binoculars. They dress in fatigues, have Jeeps, blacked out SUVs, off road vehicles and god knows what else.
They have gone from 4 agents to 50 in just a few years and they admittedly have nothing to do.
Now they want authority over lands within 100 miles of the border to build roads, lookouts and whatever else their paranoid - bottomless budget can imagine!
"Authored by Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) and featuring 59 cosponsors from across the country, H.R. 1505 would give the Secretary of Homeland Security, through the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the authority to take control of “all land under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture within 100 miles of the international land borders of the United States.”
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/06/20/hr-1505-passes-tribal-borders-and-treaties-await-senate-119563
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Bishop is my Rep. What a tool. 
