Border Patrol – City Times

Students protest Border Patrol’s possible campus visit

April 28, 2016

The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) did not participate in a campus job fair on Thursday, apparently after City College's administration cancelled...

A long line of people snaking around dividers to get through Customs is an everyday occurrence for some individuals. Photo credit: Joe Kendall

Crossing Borders

May 21, 2015

The Tijuana-San Diego border is a nonstop pumping vessel. It never sleeps. Thousands of people flood the border every morning as part of their daily...

The border patrol is abusing its given power

Jennifer Manalili

May 15, 2013

The controversy that surrounds checkpoint stories occurring in inland areas ---- namely the U.S./Mexico border, centers around a rapidly growing viral movement in which drivers are videotaping their heated altercations with border patrol officials on. Namely, these altercations become heated because the drivers in the videos are on the receiving end of racial profiling.The vi...

Cross the border, waive your rights

Elizabeth Carson

April 29, 2013

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” This is the Fourth Amendment...

Goodbye Constitution

J. Rae Chipera

April 29, 2013

America: home of the free and land of the brave? Not anymore.In Southern California, even if one does not leave the U.S., it is inevitable that a driver will pass through a border patrol checkpoint; whereupon, questions will be asked, ethnicity will be judged and the car might even get searched, all in the name of safety and national security, but to what end?Border patrol is not...