This is in Colorado Springs. What about the 100 mile border zone where the federal government pretends all rights are suspended?

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SAI_Peregrinus 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Denver International Airport has a customs zone (as all international airports do), and is only 86 miles from Colorado Springs. AFAIK they've never explicitly restricted their policy to land & sea borders.

	▲	direwolf20 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's correct, the zone is also 100 miles around every international airport.
	▲	LeifCarrotson 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Historically, they've considered land borders with Canada and Mexico, coastlines on the Pacific, Atlantic, and Gulf of Mexico, as well as the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway to be the edges of the 100 mile "reasonable distance": https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception This page: https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2025/jul/1/understand... Is one of the few that includes international airports, but then they go on to use the "200 million Americans within 100 miles of a border" statistic that's only accurate if you're only counting the land, sea, and Great Lakes borders. Which is still insane. If you add a 100 mile circle around every international airport, that's basically every major population center in the country. Sounds like yet another absurd misrepresentation, let's see if anyone can call them on it.

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pklausler 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Having lived (or maybe more accurately "resided") in the Springs for a few years, this story didn't surprise me at all.

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antonvs 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The current government believes in some sort of transitive property of 100 mile border zones. Mathematics hasn't quite caught up with this yet.

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howardYouGood 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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