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Originally Posted by scuba steve
stupid question, but that happened in canada no? what part?
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No, it happened in the US.
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Cooke was driving from Norfolk to her boyfriend’s house in Ogdensburg when she was stopped by the Border Patrol on Route 37 in Waddington. That town sits just across the St. Lawrence River from Canada. Although Cooke had not crossed the border and did not plan to do so, she became subject to the Border Patrol’s authority merely by driving on Route 37, thanks to a 1976 decision in which the Supreme Court said the government may randomly stop cars on “important roads leading away from the border” in an effort to catch illegal immigrants.
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