ICE is doing it, right around Ashland. I read that ICE is allowed to put up roadblocks anywhere within 100 miles of a US border. Ashland is very near to 100 miles from the Canadian border. ICE claims they are making arrests. Most of the ones I hear about are for things like drug running or DUI rather than straight up immigration violations.
I have been thru the Ashland roadblock a couple of times this summer. Both times the officers just waved me thru. I guess they see white hair, a white guy, a four door Detroit sedan, and instate plates. And they figure I must be clean, at least clean enough to wave thru. Profiling they used to call it. I guess profiling is OK when it works to my advantage.
I imagine the people who get stopped and searched feel differently about it.
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