top | item 45997125 (no title) 1121redblackgo | 3 months ago What is the rationale for 100 miles? Curious if anyone knows, or if its an arbitrary number a lawmaker decided? discuss order hn newest nabla9|3 months ago The 1946 statute gave CBP the authority to stop and search all vehicles within a “reasonable distance”. CBP defined the reasonable to be 100 miles and it stuck. It's just federal regulation interpreting the law and courts have blessed it. dboreham|3 months ago Supreme Court rulings it seems. This is the law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1357#But it only says "any reasonable distance". SCOTUS appears to have come up with the 100 mile limit in various cases over time.
nabla9|3 months ago The 1946 statute gave CBP the authority to stop and search all vehicles within a “reasonable distance”. CBP defined the reasonable to be 100 miles and it stuck. It's just federal regulation interpreting the law and courts have blessed it.
dboreham|3 months ago Supreme Court rulings it seems. This is the law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1357#But it only says "any reasonable distance". SCOTUS appears to have come up with the 100 mile limit in various cases over time.
nabla9|3 months ago
dboreham|3 months ago
But it only says "any reasonable distance". SCOTUS appears to have come up with the 100 mile limit in various cases over time.