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Old Mar 4, 2008 | 7:22 pm
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PatrickHenry1775
 
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Originally Posted by xyzzy
This happened 50 yards from the border with Mexico. In such a locale, is there a requirement that one produce ID or other documentation proving one is in the US legally? I know BICE has checkpoints many miles from the border in Arizona...

TSA should concentrate on airports, and leave operations near the border to duly certified law enforcement officers, such as Border Patrol. It is admirable that somebody now thinks the border should be guarded, but TSA personnel have more than enough to do at airports. As for using Federal Air Marshals on the border, why remove them from airliners? I thought they were specially trained to operate in confined fuselages of passenger airplanes.
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