The agency claims the right to patrol within 100 miles of the border. Especially in more remote regions, border patrol agents routinely assist local police and other emergency personnel.

faces two weapons charges in connection with the death of Border Patrol Agent David Maland, 44, who died Jan. 20 during a shootout in Coventry, a small town about 20 miles from the Canadian border.

People traveling within the 100-mile border zone, most of which Vermont is in, can be subject to warrantless searches by customs and immigration, said Matters. Despite this loss of Constitutional ...

a group of 60 organizations along the border from California to Texas, estimates two-thirds of the U.S. population lives within the “100-mile border enforcement zone.” According to their map ...