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Video shows Border Patrol officers asking Greyhound passengers for IDs, taking woman into custody

January 23, 2018 at 6:34 a.m. EST
U.S. border patrol officials boarded a Greyhound bus in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Jan. 19 and asked for identification from passengers. (Video: Florida Immigrant Coalition)

As a Greyhound bus pulled up to a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., station on Friday afternoon, en route from Orlando to Miami, the driver announced there would be a “routine” security checkpoint.

Two uniformed officers boarded the bus and introduced themselves as Border Patrol agents, passengers told the Florida Immigrant Coalition, an advocacy group. The officers made their way down the center aisle, row by row, questioning passengers. They instructed each person to present “a U.S. identification or a passport with a stamp of entrance,” one passenger, Raquel Quesada, told CBS4.