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- President Donald Trump ordered Customs and Border Protection agents to Portland and Seattle last month to quell unrest in those cities.
- This may have come as a surprise as the CBP is mostly known for policing US land borders, especially near Mexico.
- CBP agents are actually allowed to operate anywhere within 100 air miles of America's borders with Mexico and Canada, as well as the entire coastline.
- This 100-mile area encompasses big cities like Chicago, New York City, and Los Angeles.
- The zone includes every state that voted Democratic in the 2016 presidential election, with the exception of Colorado and Nevada — the only blue states outside the zone.
- The ACLU has published information so that people who live within this zone — which make up two-thirds of the US population — know their rights when interacting with CBP agents.
- See the map below.
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