MIAMI — Videos of Border Patrol officers removing a woman from a passenger bus in Florida are raising alarm over a routine exercise that experts call questionable and rights groups deemed problematic as enforcement of immigration laws expands. A college student who was aboard reported seeing three U.S. Border Patrol representatives waiting to enter a Miami-bound Greyhound bus as it pulled to a stop Friday in Fort Lauderdale. The Border Patrol said in a statement Tuesday that a routine immigration inspection was carried out Friday at the bus station where officers arrested a woman who had overstayed her tourist visa. The uniform of at least one officer bore the words “Police U.S. Border Patrol” in yellow on the back. Witness Raquel Quezada, a University of Florida student, told The Associated Press in a phone interview she was in the back of the bus when the officers went row by row demanding IDs.

Source: National Post January 24, 2018 18:24 UTC