alt Hacker NewsAny standard that claims the entire city of Chicago to be a border zone is an absurd standard, just laughably overreaching if it were ever put in front of a fair court.
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alistairSH • today at 6:02 PM
Yeah, it's pretty laughable, given Lake Michigan is fully within the US. But CBP considers all the Great Lakes as basically one giant international body of water.
DC also, because of proximity to the Chesapeake Bay. Austin TX within 100 of the Gulf of Mexico. And on and on.
As noted in a sibling, the 100 mile zone captures about 2/3 of the population.
Oh it’s absolutely an absurd standard, it’s just not as absurd as some claim. It still ropes in something like 2/3 of the US population as is.