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While there’s no shortage of frustrating and heartbreaking stories surrounding the actions of border patrol agents, one woman’s story stands out among the rest. During a recent Greyhound bus ride, she completely shut down the agents’ attempt to board and intimidate herself and her fellow passengers by knowing her rights and using that knowledge to defend others...
Tiana Smalls shared her account of what occurred during a bus ride from Bakersfield, California to Las Vegas. On her Facebook page, Smalls says while crossing the state line over to Nevada, the bus driver made an announcement at a routine checkpoint: “We are being boarded by Border Patrol. Please be prepared to show your documentation upon request.”
WAIT. WHAT THE FUCK?” she writes [on facebook]. “So you know I’m ready to act an ass. I stand up and say loudly: THIS IS A VIOLATION OF YOUR 4TH AMENDMENT RIGHTS. YOU DON’T HAVE TO SHOW THEM *SHIT*!!! This is illegal. We are not within 100 miles of an international border so that have NO authority to ask you for ANYTHING. TELL THEM TO FUCK OFF!”
Smalls says she even translated what she said into Spanish, because she noticed the woman sitting next to her didn’t speak English, and she “looked terrified, so I told her I had her back...
~SCARYMOMMY.COM
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