Hi Tony –
"Greyhound will always welcome Border Patrol here."
That's what a Greyhound employee told activists at a bus station in Washington state, where immigration enforcement was conducting warrantless searches and arrests of passengers.
What's worse: Greyhound is choosing not to listen to ACLU lawyers after we repeatedly met with company executives to make clear that Greyhound has the right to deny Border Patrol entry on their buses when agents don't have a warrant or probable cause.
We've had enough. Add your name to tell Greyhound that it's fueling Trump's deportation machine by allowing Border Patrol to violate the rights of its passengers. And it needs to stop now.
This is still happening: Across the country, Border Patrol agents are boarding Greyhound buses in search of noncitizens to accost, round up, and deport. Agents interrogate and detain passengers based on nothing more than the color of their skin or the sound of their voice.
Greyhound should refuse Border Patrol searches to protect its passengers, like the 12-year-old arrested on a bus in Miami or the father and his DACA-recipient son questioned as they rode from Seattle to Montana.
We're turning up the heat: Soon, we'll deliver our petition to the Greyhound headquarters, and we need your help so that they finally get the message.
Tell Greyhound: There's no excuse for allowing Border Patrol to board without a warrant or probable cause. By doing so, they're powering the Trump administration's anti-immigrant deportation machine.
Thanks for taking action,
Natalie Montelongo
ACLU Campaign Strategist, fighting for immigrants' rights
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This is not Nazi Germany, and we do not have a Gestapo here, we must not allow border patrol agents and ICE agents to board Greyhound buses checking papers. Greyhound needs to tell the border patrol and ICE agents "NO!" Border patrol agents and ICE agents boarding the buses and checking papers is unconstitutional, and it must end.
And it is the same as when I was a limousine driver, the police, etc, are not allowed to search the limo without a warrant. The border patrol and ICE agents cannot search the buses without a warrant.
Salute,
Tony V.