lundi 5 septembre 2011
Border patrol: rien à faire?
Pas si étrange si on considère l'endroit mentionné...
"On Washington state's remote and wooded Olympic Peninsula, major commotion is usually limited to a log tumbling off an overloaded lumber truck.
But lately the peninsula has been roiled by a noisy debate over the expansion of a Border Patrol station in Port Angeles, a three-hour car and ferry ride away from the U.S.-Canadian land border.
The U.S. Border Patrol is spending nearly $6 million to renovate a Port Angeles building that could house up to 50 of its agents.
Prior to the attacks of September 11, 2001, four agents were stationed in Port Angeles, a city of about 20,000 people some 15 miles across the Strait of Juan de Fuca from Canada.
"It's not needed, there's nothing for them to do up here," said Lois Danks, a local writer and organizer of Stop the Checkpoints, which last month staged a small protest near where the Border Patrol's new station is being built.
She says border agents "drive around and hassle people without any reasonable suspicion of anything except for possibly the color of their skin."
"They park across the street from Hispanic grocery stores and taco stands and watch who comes and goes," according to Danks.
Border Patrol officials deny they target any specific community and say that beyond enforcing immigration laws, they guard the peninsula from drug smuggling and terrorist threats."
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/09/05/border.patrol.wasteful.spending/index.html?hpt=po_bn1
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