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Hispanic Caucus: Caribbean Caucus and Fort Lauderdale

hispanic caucus: Leaders of the Congressional Caribbean Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus signed a joint statement Friday, responding to widely shared videos of Border Patrol officers removing a woman from a Florida passenger bus, according to Metro News. U.S. Rep. Some Democratic members of Congress say the breadth of the zone where U.S. Border Patrol is permitted to check travellers ' documentation must be reviewed. Ted Deutch led six other Florida Democrats in signing it. The Democrats called the officers' actions arbitrary and disruptive. The videos showed officers boarding a Miami-bound Greyhound bus last week in Fort Lauderdale. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.