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Nina Bernstein has an article on the front page today about American Border Patrol agents who board trains running completely within the United States. Apples segmentation strategy, and the folly of conventional wisdom Ten years after an iPod powered rebirth, Apples run continues unabated. How to make an ipad cover with a composition notebook. Traveling from New York City to Buffalo on Amtraks Lake Shore Limited last month, I wondered what I would say if Border Patrol agents showed up on the train at Syracuse or Rochester and asked, Are you a U. S. citizenMy plan was to politely decline to answer, and see what happened next. After all, the train was not crossing an international frontier. At the train stations and bus depots in western New York where such citizenship checks began on a small scale in 2. Canadian border is far away, in the middle of Lake Ontario. The Border Patrol said it had jurisdiction to enforce immigration laws within 1. But it also said that its agents questions were a part of consensual, nonintrusive conversation. In theory, that means that people are free to refuse to answer and walk away. One goal of my reporting trip was to see for myself, and for readers of The New York Times, how such conversations played out in practice. Thousands of passengers have been taken to detention because they answered that they were not United States citizens, and then could not show immigration documents that satisfied the agents. Other passengers simply declared American citizenship and stayed in their seats. The inland transportation checks have increased as the number of agents deployed in the region has grown sixfold since 91. Joanne Macri, director of the Criminal Defense Immigration Project of the New York State Defenders Association, who frequently travels by bus or train between Albany and Buffalo, told me she had never seen anyone refuse to answer in the many encounters she had witnessed. Once, Ms. Macri said, an agent prevented her from handing her organizations card to two Latino men he was taking from the train, and asked her if she knew what obstruction of justice was. Another time, at 1 a. Trailways bus in Rochester, a young man who showed agents a drivers license was questioned about what hospital he had been born in, and then taken off the bus for further inquiries before eventually being allowed to reboard and travel on to Buffalo. Ms. Macri has always answered the agents, even though I know everybody has a right to remain silent, she said. Its 1 oclock in the morning, she said, and reality sets in Do I really want to be kicked off the busIt was 4 2. Buffalo Depew station, more than four hours late too late for the Border Patrol, it appeared. But by 9 a. m., when a train on the return journey pulled into the same station, half a dozen men in green uniforms with pistols on their hips strode down the platform toward me and a family that included two women wearing saris. An agent with a shaved head and sunglasses stopped beside me. Are you a U. S. citizen he asked. I dont want to answer that question, I replied. Fine, he said, and promptly turned to the family two children, their parents and grandmother. Unlike me, a white woman in jeans who had spoken American English with no accent, they looked and sounded like immigrants. If they said they were citizens, would they be asked for identification If they refused to answer, as I had, would the agent just move on Or, as upstate immigration lawyers maintained, would the agent take their silence as a justification for further inquiryI would never know, because the father readily replied that they were all legal permanent residents of the United States from India. He handed over all their Indian passports as soon as the agent asked for them. A minute or two later, on the Rochester bound train, I caught up with the same agent just as Ruth Fernandez, a naturalized citizen born in Ecuador, was giving him her United States passport. These days she feels obliged to carry it whenever she visits her sister in Ohio, she told me later. Checking people, I see every time, she added in imperfect English, as her grandchild slept beside her. I dont like it. Not supposed to. In Spanish, she added He said it was because of terrorism that they do this. I think its for the immigrants. Overhearing her complaint, another passenger, Katie Miller, objected, praising the officer for his politeness. He wasnt threatening anybody, she said. With so many television reports of children being kidnapped, and the Canadian border nearby, she added, the presence of the patrol made her feel safer. But Ms. Millers father, Fred Linxweiler, was not so sure. What I worry about is how he picked her, he said, referring to the agents decision to ask Ms. Fernandez for identification. Its O. K. if its really random. Otherwise, its going to look like this new Arizona law. Most passengers answered the agents readily. Others, startled from sleep, simply stared, and the agents prompted them State your citizenship for me, please, sir. What country were you born inSome had been on the train overnight, since Chicago many had boarded at dawn. Their features reflected ancestry from every continent a stout black grandmother in a Brooklyn T shirt. A graybeard wearing a yarmulke. A pale young man lost in his i. Pod, who said later Im clueless. I dont pay attention to news and politics. Arent they doing that in Arizona or somethingBy then, after a stop scheduled for five minutes had turned into 1. Other passengers, too, turned out to have Arizona on their minds, including Joe Hedger, 3. Syracuse from Tempe with his wife and 2 year old son. Weve had Sheriff Arpaio doing this for a while, he said, referring to Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, who patrols metropolitan Phoenix and administers the jails, just pulling people over and asking if theyre citizens, and if theyre not, just carting them away, I guess. I was really surprised that this was happening in New York. He added, Its just like theyre authority figures, so you answer. Sheldon and Pam Cole of New Canaan, N. Y., who had promptly replied both U. S. citizens when the agent asked, also had second thoughts about the exchange. I am a U. S. citizen, but I could have been a German who spoke good English, said Mr. Cole, 6. 5, whose gray ponytail could be seen under his baseball cap. It didnt make a whole bunch of sense. It bothers me, because in America weve never been expected to carry around and produce proof of citizenship on demand. Without such a document requirement, he added, Its virtual racial profiling. But a couple from Norfolk, N. Y., Charlie and Sheree Frego, strongly disagreed. The Inhumans The Cartoon High Quality. Theyve got a good eye, Mr. Frego, 5. 1, said of the Border Patrol, citing his years of living near the Canadian border. They can tell by your response. The Fregos had encountered the patrol before on buses near the border, they said. Once, at Watertown, on a bus that stops near a prison, they said, they saw agents take an African American man off for extra screening. I thought they did the right thing, Mr. Frego said, adding, He got back on the bus after 2. My conversations were interrupted by an Amtrak conductor who insisted that I needed written permission from the companys media relations department to interview the passengers. I disagreed, citing the First Amendment and my ticket to Rochester. Are you a passenger or a reporter the conductor demanded. Both, I said, and went back to work. Much later, I called Cliff Cole, a spokesman for Amtrak, seeking a clarification of the railroads role in the patrol checks. Amtrak does not delay the train, Mr. Cole said. Its a Border Patrol initiative with which Amtrak has been cooperative and will continue to be cooperative. Its a security measure, he added. Autoblog. Green We Obsessively Cover the Green Scene. Last month, a Proterra bus set a world record, traveling 1,1. Last month, a Proterra bus set a world record, traveling 1,1.