A driver fired shots at Customs and Border Patrol agents in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood on Saturday, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

DHS said the border patrol agents were “conducting immigration enforcement operations” near 26th Street and Kedzie Avenue when a man driving a black Jeep fired shots.

DHS also said people nearby threw a paint can and bricks at the agents’ vehicles.

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    They are limited to 100 miles from the border, but “the border” counts the shoreline, so in reality 2/3 of the population is in that zone.

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      I’ve heard that courts have ruled that airports count as “the border” too. So anywhere within 100 miles of an airport. So basically anywhere in the country.

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          They work in international airports though. They literally go through your luggage when you enter the country that way. I bet they aren’t restricted to the customs counter.

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            Right, but that doesn’t mean there’s a “100-mile no-rights border zone” around the airport.

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              Regardless of what the courts say, there are no rights-free zones in the US, only zones where inalienable rights are being unlawfully denied.

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      Don’t they also count international airports as “the border?” Which changes that number to something like 99.9% of the population.

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      Except the Great Lakes are mostly part of America. Lake Michigan is completely inside The United States, so Illinois is nowhere near the Canadian border.

      Chicago isn’t a border city, it’s a coastal city.