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5. Weak sauce, really -- they should have claimed airports as border, thus justifying invasion of any major city at will

Reply to Sogo (Original post)

Wed Oct 8, 2025, 04:29 PM

Oct 8

"What, your city has an international airport? Ah, that's border right there. Your whole metro area belongs to us now!"
Then deploy as desired anyway while it goes through the courts. As has been SOP for these fascist assholes previously. How did they miss such a golden opportunity for criming? Seriously, is Stephen Miller really that distracted? He's off his 4'10" game.

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The Feds are justifying Border Patrol in Chicago (required to operate within 100 mi. of a border) by saying the shore of [View all] Sogo Oct 8 OP

For them, any bald-faced LIE will do. B.See Oct 8 #1

Why? Mad_Machine76 Oct 8 #2

Hell no... Moostache Oct 8 #8

I forgot to put this: Mad_Machine76 Oct 8 #15

Geography not their strong point. boonecreek Oct 8 #3

The Great Lakes around Michigan are treated as a single body of water DetroitLegalBeagle Oct 8 #4

Weak sauce, really -- they should have claimed airports as border, thus justifying invasion of any major city at will 0rganism Oct 8 #5

Don't give them any ideas! LOL! Grumpy Old Guy Oct 8 #11

So weird that they'd miss it 0rganism Oct 8 #16

The CBP's 100-mile zone starts at the boundary of the lakes. I'm almost positive there was a court case about this but WhiskeyGrinder Oct 8 #6

Da fuck are ya talkin'? I saw this gub'mint guy on Fox and he had a map of the Great Lakes region and he had 3Hotdogs Oct 8 #7

Portland, Oregon is more than a 100 miles from the border too. Botany Oct 8 #9

no, the entire US coastline is considered a border, so Portalnd is within the 100 mile zone. Celerity Oct 8 #14

Next thing you know Trump will want to rename it The Great Trump Lake. flashman13 Oct 8 #10

Per the ACLU eggplant Oct 8 #12

The Great Lakes are counted as one body of water. Celerity Oct 8 #13

Most of the Magats probably believe that Lake Michigan borders with Canada... Jack Valentino Oct 8 #17