Border Patrol Asserts Authority Up North

by David Sommerstein, North Country Public Radio

While national debate is focused on Arizona's immigration law, a quieter change in the enforcement of citizenship and visas is happening along parts of the northern border. In upstate New York, federal agents are boarding trains and buses up to 100 miles from the border, asking passengers for documents. The checks are sweeping up some foreign college students and researchers who are in the country legally, and it's causing friction with area universities.

Broadcast Dates

• All Things Considered, September 15, 2010