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![map of the border zone](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpE7EG0U4AARYaH.jpg)
Here, authorities can set up checkpoints, search/detain people without a warrant and sometimes enter private land without permission.
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![the border zone touches 38 states and encompasses all of 10 states](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpE7ZG8U0AAmLpk.jpg)
Even if you never leave the country, you can encounter @CBP agents — with powers far beyond those of other law enforcement agencies — deep into the interior of the U.S. texasobserver.org/checkpoint-nat…
![checkpoint](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpE7qSgU0AAAkHQ.jpg)
No drugs. No warrant.
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![laura sandoval](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpE77gSUUAAuD7X.jpg)
But when @MelissaLaLinea filed a FOIA request for drug searches that did not result in an arrest, detention or deportation, the agency said it had nothing.
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Over the past 10 years, activist groups have raised concerns that CBP is slowly creeping farther into the interior of the country — like Los Angeles and Houston.
![chris rickerd](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpE8pUCU8AA6f61.jpg)
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![1954 plane](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpE9P9OVsAAIM0k.jpg)
Today, the agency consists of more than 23,000 customs officers and nearly 20,000 agents.
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![CBP staffing](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpE9fUlUUAA_CF3.jpg)
Since 2010, watchdog groups have counted 77 CBP-related fatalities — at least a fifth of them U.S. citizens.
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When a local deputy and a Border Patrol agent arrived, the son stepped out of his house and was shot 13 times.
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@BetoORourke, an El Paso congressman challenging @TedCruz in #txsen, has proposed a bill that would roll back some of CBP’s power.
But it's languished in committee.
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![beto](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpE-cBZV4AAPL_Y.jpg)
CBP considers the Great Lakes a maritime border, which means all of Michigan lies within the zone. So, anyone can be subjected to a warrantless search at any time.
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![miriam aukerman](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpE_EUAU4AAvWYB.jpg)
CBP is stopping American citizens and legal residents far from the border.
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The document raises real questions, she said, about what CBP is doing with racial data.
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“It’s not because I’m afraid to go to Mexico,” she said. “I’m afraid of coming back to my own country.”
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