Fri, 04/09/2021 - 10:25am -- tim
Vermont Business Magazine The federal district court in New Hampshire ruled yesterday that an ACLU lawsuit challenging Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) immigration checkpoints in New England may proceed. While an individual CBP agent was dismissed from the case, the court rejected CBP’s argument that the case against CBP should be dismissed.
In its decision, the court rejected CBP’s motion to dismiss the case: “Given the recent and recurring history of checkpoints on I-93 in New Hampshire, [the Chief Border Patrol Agent’s] acknowledgment of the checkpoints’ importance to the agency in carrying out its duties, and the extensive planning and approval process that went into the 2017 reinitiation of checkpoints in New Hampshire, the court cannot conclude from the mere fact that no checkpoints are currently scheduled that additional checkpoints are unlikely.”