Opinion: For the many Americans watching and reading about the protests, the assortment of federal forces dispatched to the scene in Washington, DC, was dizzying—and, in the case of Customs and Border Protection, baffling
Karl Jacoby is the Allan Nevins Professor of American History and the co-director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. He is the author ofOn June 1, Customs and Border Protection dispatched more than 350 officers to Washington D.C. as part of the Trump administration’s effort to overawe marchers who had taken to the streets of the capital to protest police brutality.
largest U.S. cities and 10 full states, including Hawaii, Connecticut and Florida. And this border zone is not just geographically broader than most Americans realize; it also gives the CBP extra latitude in enforcing laws. Most crucially, the Fourth Amendment’s protection against “unreasonable searches and seizures” doesn’t apply in the border zone.
This law—which in essence regularized the extraordinary powers that Border Patrol agents had already assumed for themselves—raised the question: What constituted a “reasonable distance” from the border?
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