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18 In short, the FY 1984 change appears to have been the result of the proposal to expand LSC representation to aliens who were merely "present" as opposed to lawful residents.
In 1788 the Scarsdale Town Board passed a law providing, “that if any Hogs trespass not being Ringed or Snouted and yoked that it shall be lawful to drive them to Pound.”
So-called "commuter aliens" are a special category of lawful permanent residents recognized by the INS regulations as resident aliens of the United States who may reside outside of the United States in a contiguous territory and who return to work in the United States regularly.
In areas along the Mexico-United States border, it is common for lawful permanent resident aliens to live in Mexico and work in the United States.
This includes unexplained transactions that are "not the sort in which the particular customer would normally be expected to engage" or that have no "apparent lawful purpose."