ID: AP Seattle @apseattle posted: “BREAKING: Greyhound says it will stop letting Border Patrol agents conduct routine immigration checks on its buses.”
corpse @thefurrow replied: “Witnesses said a bus driver told an ICE agent to “gargle [his] balls” when the latter requested to enter the bus”
Before you all go patting Greyhound on the back for this policy:
This is from 5 years ago.
They only changed their policy after being sued by the Washington State AG.
They were forced to pay $2.2 million for violating their customers rights by allowing Border Patrol to conduct warrantless searches in the first place.
It’s estimated that 57,000 people were on Greyhound busses boarded by border patrol, in Spokane alone, from 2013-2020.
Thanks for the added info, it sucks to know but isn’t surprising, but nowhere do I (or anyone else I can see E: aside from the single mention in the AP post that OP is commenting on, obviously) give props or even mention greyhound.
No worries. Yeah props to the bus driver for sure. Just seeing this post without context or even a timeframe made me think people would get the impression that Greyhound was sticking it to the current administration, when they pretty much did the opposite and fucked over their passengers.
Fair enough.
I only came here to pat the bus driver on the balls.