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Keep in mind, "land borders" includes any airport serving international flights, so if you're within 100miles radius of such an airport, you're technically in a constitution-free zone

America is a sick joke.

Border Patrol cannot search vehicles in the 100-mile zone without a warrant or "probable cause" (a reasonable belief, based on the circumstances, that an immigration violation or crime has likely occurred).

So, hypothetically, what stops Mexico from removing ICEs rights to search at all within that 100mile zone?

As a non-German speaker, I'm fairly sure this says: "Lubing machinery and beer drinking, naturally!"

As a US citizen, I can't get over how envious I am of your EU citizenship.

As a US citizen, I cannot get over how fucking dumb this country is.

As an American citizen I wish so badly to get citizenship somewhere else.

Because the US needs them. They need the cheap labour, they need immigrants, and keeping them "illegal" makes it easy to abuse them. If they deported all of them, or let them become citizens, the economy of Texas would probably collapse as there wouldn't be a constant stream of people who can't take advantage of even the weak labour laws of the US.

The purpose of the Trump Government is to distribute tax dollars to their donors. Spending is only wasteful when a non-white, non-rich person would profit .

The government is taking tax money from citizens and giving it to the oligarchs running the for-profit prisons.

The only part of that that doesn't make sense is the citizens voting for it.

Depends on who is buddy with who. If the government money ends up in the right pockets in the end, all players are happy.

Well, except tax payers but they are the peasants in the kingdom.

You're assuming a single rational actor. The current US government is neither rational nor unified in policy. Whether someone gets in or not is down to the whims of individual ICE agents and whether they're detained or not is down to the whims of individual ICE agents, so you get one reasonable guy who says "sure, come on in", and then you get one xenophobe who says "need to get all these damn foreigners out of our country" and then you have this situation.

Normally you have a sane leadership setting and enforcing uniform policies. The current leadership is entirely focused on generating sound bites and demolishing everything within reach. Thus individual agents have been handed almost complete authority with almost no oversight.

I've been wondering that too. Why not just say "nope" and have them take a plane home?

The cancer is Americas entire political and corporate oligarchy, and its terminal.

Remove Trump and there is still his fascist admin, as well as hundreds of other politicians and a supreme court, staffed by the criminally corrupt who sell their souls to the highest bidder.

they can do it any time they want.

With a toothless Judicial and weak legislative? Honestly, who's giving the order to whom to have this guy removed if they impeach him, and how do they enforce it?

It's the proper procedure - they have a "ranking" how they proceeded with countries that behave like that. The US currently is not quite yet in the "travel warning" area but is getting closer and closer every day (which they, despite the usual secrecy of diplomacy, told the media multiple times).

Considering the huge ramifications a travel warning has, it's reasonable to go step by step to gradually increase pressure, ideally together with European partners.

The formal travel warning is basically the biggest gun they have in their arsenal.

Amongst others that would mean:

• Most travel insurance providers no longer would cover travellers. This is especially significant for business travel as then individual risk assessment need to be made. (I do the later...it's not cheap). And companies can no longer require their staff to travel to the US. So huge "risk bonuses" would be required. Even more significant for public employees and the European army personnel currently training in the US.

• Airlines would have to take additional insurance by their brokers to cover flights to and from the US. That can easily double prices for passengers and freight.

• Current trade contracts will have larger insurance costs, industrial goods and equipment that requires maintenance will have issues,etc. This is not a one way street,though,as European staff cannot be trained in the US either. Same goes for science,etc.

It's not an agency it's the ministry of foreign affairs and right now they're operating in maintenance mode as we don't have a government proper, only a caretaker government until the Bundestag constitutes itself on the 25th where a new chancellor can be elected.

The change looks like it does because it's the kind of change a ranking civil servant can do without checking in with their minister, it's considered non-political.