Rhode Island’s government has literally ordered police to stop cars with New York license plates. They’ve also issued orders to conduct searches and hunt down people who may have traveled from New York.
Rhode Island police began stopping cars with New York plates Friday. On Saturday, the National Guard will help them conduct house-to-house searches to find people who traveled from New York and demand 14 days of self-quarantine.
“Right now we have a pinpointed risk,” Governor Gina Raimondo said. “That risk is called New York City.”
New York is the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., on Friday reporting a total of 44,000 cases.
Rhode Island has just over 200, and it has begun an aggressive campaign to keep the virus out and New Yorkers contained, over objections from civil liberties advocates.
Raimondo, a Democrat, said she had consulted lawyers and said while she couldn’t close the border, she felt confident she could enforce a quarantine.
This is just another hysterical reaction to the coronavirus.
These orders are coming from a Democrat governor which is odd because I thought Democrats were against walls, quarantines, borders and this type of aggressive policing. Remember all the whining and screeching they did about the federal government enforcing immigration laws? They also claimed that walls and borders don’t work.
If anything it shows how full of shit these people are on almost every issue.
But ultimately, this is a ridiculous and unconstitutional policy, not to mention a waste of government resources.
