I used to live in the NW corner of Vermont. Once years ago my wife's sister was visiting us with 3 of her children (3 - 9 yrs ) from New Jersey. She was returning by bus and we took them to the Greyhound bus station in Burlington Vt. That particular bus was not a express bus so it stopped in some towns and cities along the way to pick up other passengers. And instead of going directly South it went North and across the Bridge at Rouses point, NY which is within sight of the Canadian Border, then headed South down Interstate 87 toward NY City. About 85 miles down that Interstate highway the Border Patrol had a checkpoint set up. The Bus stopped and the passengers were subjected to interrogation as to citizenship and asked if they had any forbidden fruits or meats coming into the US. Of course there may have been some non- US passengers that boarded the bus at either Rouses Point or Plattsburgh. My sister in law had some bags with lunch for the kids and a bag of apples she bought in the town I lived in. They questioned her and saw the bag of apples which they confiscated and since they felt the kids lunch was also illegal they took that too. My sister in law was a very timid person so all she did was a mild protest and cry. They did not care. Yet in spite of the fact she never crossed into Canada they took all her food even though her tickets showed the original boarding was in Burlington Vermont. This was before the age of cell phones so I did not find out until they called on the phone when they arrived home in New Jersey. I called the supervisor of the Border Patrol in that sector and all he would do is say "Sorry, we will try to do better next time". This is why people get furious about that "100 mile Rule".
@markinnes4264
5 жыл бұрын
THat's a sad story. It really helps you understand the horrible treatment some people get so . The concept of inland citizenship checks is ludicrous.
@JTA1961
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing
@curiousbystander9193
2 жыл бұрын
they started pulling that shit up there right after 911, never before.....makin jobs for c students
@patrickday4206
2 жыл бұрын
That supervisor should have went over a taken something from that boarder patrol agent like his ID and then kept and told him that it's unacceptable to take someone's property that they own and paided for and is protected under the constitution.
@dalefaber6772
2 жыл бұрын
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@joatmon6132
5 жыл бұрын
Creeping law enforcement. I can just see it now. "Are you a US Citizen?" "Yes, why are you here?" You're within 100 miles of the border." " Uh, I'm in Ogden, Utah. How is that within 100 miles of the border?" "Salt Lake City Int'l airport is a port of entry, IE the border."
@ryanmarx3812
5 жыл бұрын
Ogden!
@Trek001
4 жыл бұрын
@@ryanmarx3812 North Haverbrook is better
@shaunofthedead3000
4 жыл бұрын
There's far more truth in your statement than even you know.
@alasdairmacleod8420
4 жыл бұрын
That's exactly what I was thinking any international airport would constitute a border entry point. So an airport in the middle of the US would be a starting point for the 100 mile law radius. Would that actually leave any point of the US not within that 100 miles if a border?
@joshuahamlett9098
4 жыл бұрын
@@alasdairmacleod8420 The airports and the shores of rivers do not count as boarders. CBP Officers do operate checkpoints at the airports, but only for international flights. And while according to treaty Lake Michigan technically is an international maritime boundary, it is enclosed entirely within the continental United States and is not treated as such. The Boarder patrol does not actually even have a field office in Chicago or operate any patrols in the state. The closest one is actually in Detroit.
@dwtrksvc
5 жыл бұрын
You said the problem many times. "We've learned to live with it." The removal of rights will be sold as convenience and safety.
@eugeneenslow8563
4 жыл бұрын
"Those who would give up their liberty in exchange for security deserve neither"
@seqranger1
5 жыл бұрын
You will love this absolutely true story. This year my wife and i flew down to Harlingen, Tx to visit her family. While visiting I rented a car and drove up to Austin for a short business trip. On the road north out of Harlingen there is a border checkpoint which I was fully prepared to pass through as I had before. Approaching the checkpoint I passed no less than 5 BDP vehicles all parked along the major highway. As i passed the 6th vehicle he quickly, and recklessly, pulled out onto the highway and proceeded to accelerate in an extremely aggressive manner until he passed me traveling in excess of 80mph. As he passed my vehicle he then rapidly braked, just like in Super Troopers, dipped in behind my vehicle and turned on his Cherries and Berries to initiate a traffic stop. I was already annoyed because I was pretty certain there was no legal authority to initiate the stop but I obviously stopped my vehicle to see what the issue was. The BDP agent approached my vehicle much in the manner a law enforcement officer would looking in my back windows eye balling my luggage before reaching my window. I immediately asked him what the purpose of the stop was to which he responded, "Where are you headed to?". I told him that wasn't any of his business and that I would need to know why I was being stopped. He then asked " What's in your bags"? I politely told him that was also none of his business. At this point I decided to let him know that I did not appreciate being delayed and I would like to continue on if there was no legitimate purpose for the stop. At this point he asked the one thing i was pretty sure he was legally allowed to do, "Are you a US citizen"? I laughed, I'm a 30yr old white male speaking plain English, wearing my veteran hat with my CIB, Afghan campaign, and Infantry Pin on. I obviously told him yes, I'm a US citizen. He then asked "Can I look in your trunk?" I laughed again and was beginning to get agitated and told him no. At this point he said he would be right back and went back to his vehicle. In my rear view mirror i could see two more BDP vehicles approaching and another vehicle headed towards me from the front. Yes that's right guys, they are so busy at the border that they could spare 4 vehicles and officers for an obviously American Veteran during an Illegal stop with no reason to assume any wrong doing was taking place. He approached my vehicle again and at this point I demanded that he provide the reason for the stop and that I felt my rights as a US citizen were being violated. He then looks up into the air for approximately 20 seconds of total silence, leans down into my window and says, "There was a report that a vehicle that matched the description of your vehicle was at a gas station where 2 Mexicans were seen sneaking into the trunk while the driver was paying for fuel." I don't think I have ever laughed as hard and loud as i did following that statement as I knew this report was 100% total bullshit. I hadn't even stopped for fuel and I am aware of profiling practices for single males in rental cars. I told the agent at this point that I felt his story was 100% made up and that I was being illegally profiled and stopped under false pretense. He said to me one more time, "Are you sure you don't want to let me look in your trunk?" The truck was empty by the way. I told him no that I don't want to be delayed any longer and unless he had a legal reason to detain me I would be on my way. He looked at me and said, "Good luck at the checkpoint, I hope for your sake there's nothing in the trunk." which i took almost as a threat. He walked away and I proceeded to the checkpoint where a drug dog that was searching an 18 wheeler stopped his search to come sniff my vehicle. The BDP agent there was nice and said, "If you don't mind me asking, do you come through here a lot or something?" I responded no I don't, but I also don't appreciate my rights being violated, he said "seems reasonable to me" and waved me through. This is exactly how this stop happened. I literally had to call my wife right afterwards because I couldn't believe it. I am certain my rights were violated and the officer made up the reason for the stop. If you think they are so busy down there from floods of migrants think again, they are busy stopping US combat vets and then harassing them for 10 minutes.
@seqranger1
5 жыл бұрын
@Nobody Knows i am unsure if you are saying this about me or the border agent. I certainly assume you mean the agent but some clarification would be appreciated.
@seqranger1
5 жыл бұрын
@Nobody Knows Actually you are wrong. They cannot just do anything they want inside the 100 mile zone. The 4th amendment of the constitution does still apply and it is only waived upon entry into the country. They are not law enforcement officers and in fact can only enforce federal immigration law. If you read my story you would know that he likely made up the story as a cover for the stop and that i knew for a fact that no mexicans were in my car, which i assured him. Thats not even touching the question of how anyone can tell who is a mexican and who is an american just by looking at them. We all know he wanted to search my car for drugs simply because i was alone, driving north, and in a rental car. Those reasons are not enough to violate my rights and thus was an abuse of his authority. I am failing to grasp how you are not understanding this. Further, a made up report that doesnt exist is not probable cause. He did not search my vehicle because the report he cited was nonexistent which is why he let me go with no more than me telling him im a us citizen.
@danoberste8146
5 жыл бұрын
Public Service Announcment: Rights are like muscles, if you don't exercise them, they will atrophy.
@WisdomVendor1
4 жыл бұрын
Very true words.
@ennuiii
4 жыл бұрын
gonna quote ya on that one.
@TarkMcCoy
4 жыл бұрын
Same with your rifle aim! Let 'em know: THERE IS A COST, and some folks don't care about that 100 mile rule. They proceed with an ilegal search and they might just find more than they were bargining for.
@negotiableaffections
4 жыл бұрын
Just try and fight for your rights!
@michaelblacktree
5 жыл бұрын
I remember on a road trip out west, I was surprised to find a Border Patrol checkpoint in the middle of New Mexico. It was like a toll plaza, but with Border Patrol agents instead of toll attendants. And it was nowhere near the border with Mexico. To be honest, it kinda pissed me off that I had to prove I belong here, when I never left and wasn't anywhere near an international border.
@mr.h5436
5 жыл бұрын
Those of us who go through checkpoints daily, sometimes waiting 40 minutes, feel your pain. :)
@samsavage3426
2 жыл бұрын
I went through one a few weeks ago taking a trip to roswell agent asked if I was a citizen told him yes (born and raised in the us) he said have a good day and flagged me on
@johnnybgood2887
Жыл бұрын
@@samsavage3426 I would of told him. I'm white n we're conversating in English... what do you think ???
@samsavage3426
Жыл бұрын
@@johnnybgood2887 that still doesn’t mean you are an American citizen
@garyhall2126
5 жыл бұрын
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin. Just sayin'
@Cryptonymicus
5 жыл бұрын
Maybe you should've mentioned that back in 2001 when Bush was signing the so-called "Patriot Act" because everybody, and I mean everybody, was crying please please keep us safe.
@davidhatzenbuhler6888
5 жыл бұрын
@@Cryptonymicus Were you crying "Please protect me"?
@diablominero
4 жыл бұрын
That wasn't what he meant at the time, but yeah
@remlatzargonix1329
4 жыл бұрын
Gary Hall ...."You can't get there from here" - Some Hillbilly. Just sayin'
@troyevitt2437
3 жыл бұрын
Kinda a misunderstood context. Franklin was talking about a literal purchase on the part of William Penn's heirs who still controlled he Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. They wanted not to be taxed for the USA's defense of the commonwealth during the French/Indian War, but rather to donate an amount of money they deemed reasonable. Franklin believed that a private purchase-or contract-of the US Armed Forces' services, albeit retroactive, set a bad precedent. As a chronic pain sufferer, a consequence of being a DUI victim, I don't care how ANYBODY feels about DUI check-points. Boo fucking Hoo.
@sierracharlie7293
5 жыл бұрын
If you want to see Someones True Character. Give them a little bit of Power, then just sit back and watch...
@CantankerousDave
5 жыл бұрын
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
@REDARROW-ez7dg
5 жыл бұрын
S C Read the Stanford Prison Experiment.
@Cryptonymicus
5 жыл бұрын
"Character" is as much of a fiction as "common sense."
@sierracharlie7293
5 жыл бұрын
@@Cryptonymicus The Comments Feed on KZitem is a perfect example. The Power to Comment/express opinion. Some use it Constructively, others... well.
@sierracharlie7293
5 жыл бұрын
@@REDARROW-ez7dg its on my list.
@swdierks
5 жыл бұрын
"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out-Because I was not a trade unionist ... Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me"
@stevelehto
5 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite pieces of language. I hate to call it a poem because it is so much more than that. Thanks.
@brandonlarrabee5784
5 жыл бұрын
Something tells me you are both
@CantankerousDave
5 жыл бұрын
Brandon Larrabee Thanks for disproving Steve’s comment about people taking notice even though they’re not the ones being targeted. What affects one of us affects all of us is how the country’s supposed to work.
@brandonlarrabee5784
5 жыл бұрын
The socialist cannot exist in the rules that govern the operations of this republic. So the very presence is an assault on the Republic.
@brandonlarrabee5784
5 жыл бұрын
Free to do whatever you want under the guidelines of our founding..making citizens slaves to central government and having that central government seize free mens property to control the means of production is in uni0n with our laws or rights.. So if you want that bring arms not words.
@imageinphoto
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for doing this video. The one thing I forgot to mention, is there is almost always a 'Border' Patrol agent at these check points that happens to have a 'drug dog'. If these are just supposed to only be a brief and limited inquiry into residence status, why the drug dogs? So much for the Supreme Court ruling that checkpoints cannot be primarily used for drug-search or general law enforcement efforts.
@mojoman2001
5 жыл бұрын
Drug dogs are there for the "secondary" purpose of seizing assets for the financial gain of their agency. Repealing asset forfeiture laws would help a lot, IMO. Also, drug busts are good for the agency at budget re-authorization time. 🤔
@davidcruz8667
2 жыл бұрын
CBP and ICE are the main enforcement entities with the greatest capability for drug interdiction, and it is indeed part of the job. They work closely with the DEA which is more detailed in the investigation and conviction of individuals and organizations engaged in drug networks.
@imageinphoto
2 жыл бұрын
@@davidcruz8667 - It may be part of their job, but, it is not supposed to be a function of the checkpoints. That's the problem. The checkpoints cannot legally be fishing expeditions.
@davidcruz8667
2 жыл бұрын
@@imageinphoto you can't argue this and win. It is and will always be part of drug interdiction. If you're an American citizen and you go through a checkpoint transporting drugs, you are still breaking the law. If you are in a state with legalized Marijuana and you're only in possession of a reasonable amount for personal use, and you are not driving under the influence, you'll probably be all right. Hard drugs are still a Federal offense. Border Patrol officers are Federal agents with powers of arrest for these offenses, and as you've nearly recognized in your statement it is indeed part of their job. Many people have the misconception that Border Patrol agents only handle immigration issues. The name itself should give you a clue, they enforce Border laws, including drug trafficking. You won't get away in court saying that your citizenship status has no bearing on drug transportation offenses and should therefore be dismissed. Your civil rights are always affected by your behavior as a citizen in good standing within our society. Commission of a crime restricts and, if convicted, removes some of those rights by law (Such as convicted felons losing the right to own firearms or vote), from the US Constitution down through state constitutions, through Federal and state legislatures according to locality. Federal courts up to the Supreme Court handle contentious cases and circumstances, but you must go through the process that is the basis of our legal system and our Constitutional rights.
@imageinphoto
2 жыл бұрын
@@davidcruz8667 - Did you watch and comprehend the video? When CBP go on fishing expeditions for drugs at checkpoints CBP is breaking the law. By expanding the scope of a checkpoint, beyond what the law allows (checking citizenship), CBP is breaking the law regardless of what the person passing through the checkpoint has or doesn't have. Crawl back under your bridge.
@patriot9455
5 жыл бұрын
I used to pull 53 foot trailer loads of produce from the border between AZ and old Mexico. My first trip eastbound, I encountered the checkpoint. I showed them my passport and had my sleeper curtain open. After that, I had my interior cab lights on and they just waved me through. When I got to Florida, they asked me to pull in for inspect every time. They inspected my paperwork for the load and asked me to open the back doors. I got to know them on a first name basis. One time I asked what they were looking for. They were looking for "bugs, drugs, and people". They were polite, businesslike and never had reason to do more than look once and let me proceed. One time, I picked up a Cootie game, stopped a few miles before the checkpoint and put two assembled cooties by the back door, inside the trailer. The officer looked at them, called his trainee over and asked if that was a forbidden bug. The trainee had never played that children's game, and wanted to inspect it closer. He finally got the joke we had pulled on him. I let him keep the cootie.
@seanyouknowwho798
5 жыл бұрын
Best commentary on our Constitutional rights! I get frustrated when those in the legal profession let twisted and contorted legal logic negate our clear and obvious rights and simply justify it with “It’s the law.” As always, great video!
@candacejacallen4813
4 жыл бұрын
I’m from Alaska. I have never been searched coming back in to the US. The Canadians, however, have searched our vehicles. One time they made my husband unpack an entire pickup truck full of personal items. They found nothing and he had to repack it with no help.
@Parts4ADealLLC
5 жыл бұрын
Marc Fisher pulled me over while I was driving a commercial vehicle thru McHenry, Illinois, He thought I was overweight. When I gave him my license he saw my badge in my wallet and inquired. I told him it is not relevant to the stop. He yanked MY wallet out of MY hands to inspect the badge, unprofessional. Then he asked if I had a gun, of course I did, I live in Texas, I carry my gun everywhere, he got scared, got my gun and pulled me out of my truck. Called reinforcements and they pulled my wife out of the truck frisked us as though we were some terrorists. Against our wishes rummaged thru our truck without a warrant and when he didn't find anything Fisher threw his gloves on the ground, littering. Was gloating to other officers that he will tow our truck and trailer and it's going to cost us a lot of money. While holding us they were cussing F this and F that, unprofessional. I never was arrested in my life so this was 1st time. They took my wife's license while I was arrested so she couldn't go anywhere, unprofessional. This ordeal took over 3 hours, Issued 2 tickets which were later dismissed because Fisher doesn't know the laws. Got my gun back. Wanted to file an official complaint, well guess what, they don't have a complaint form, unprofessional. A Sargent came out took my statement and said he would email me with results. Still waiting for email, unprofessional. They don't answer their phones, left many messages and Mckeen never called back. Do you have any recommendations for me
@ScottMStolz
Жыл бұрын
Contact an attorney with experience in these types of cases and see what they say. And maybe contact an organization that helps citizens protect their rights who have lawyers.
@madmh6421
5 жыл бұрын
Thank-you for speaking out for us!
@reggiebenes2916
5 жыл бұрын
I have a cousin from Windsor. who was stopped in Detroit for suspicion of being illegal. He was profiled for being too polite.
@stevericard1546
4 жыл бұрын
I live in Florida, the whole freaking state is border territory. There are several other states that are in the same situation. That BS needs to be less than 10 miles, actually it should be measured in feet
@lq7777
3 жыл бұрын
Making non-land borders (coast or airport) 1 mile (maybe less even) would be a good start.
@JTA1961
2 жыл бұрын
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@drmadjdsadjadi
2 жыл бұрын
@@lq7777 How about zero? Why should I be queried at all when I am just sitting on a beach?
@TheRealhippy
5 жыл бұрын
Steve, I appreciate your views. I think you’re a true patriot. Thank you!
@eugeneenslow8563
4 жыл бұрын
Steve, I absolutely agree with you 💯%!!! I think I've been through an interior checkpoint once, about 20 years ago and was shocked. I traveled in CA, TX, LA & AR 40+ years ago and NEVER came across an interior checkpoint. Although our borders need more patrolling now, I think all those CBP personnel would be more effective patrolling actual borders. And yes, public apathy on this issue is indeed pathetic. Hundreds of thousands of citizens should be petitioning our federal representatives to put ALL CBP personnel ON the border.
@VicVanity
5 жыл бұрын
When I drove cab in St. Clair county. I was pulled over by immigration on my way back from dropping off a fare at the far end of the county. His reason for pulling me over because my cab was empty two towns away from the companies base
@jackwood8307
5 жыл бұрын
Was traveling through Louisiana, middle of the state and ran into one of these checkpoints. They were busy with other cars so I got waved on. It seemed odd but now I know. Search on youtube for theses checkpoints and you’ll quickly see that they have a “we can do anything we want to you “ and will delay and hassle you if you object. We are getting more like a police state every day.
@living-wellon-less5669
5 жыл бұрын
3 years ago I took a Greyhound from Mississippi to Pontiac and when we arrived in Detroit border patrol wouldn't let anyone off the bus until they were questioned and their ID checked. It can and will happen when you least expect it!
@tx2sturgis
5 жыл бұрын
You left out the K-9's that sniff for contraband around your vehicle as you approach the agent, and also, the electronic scanners of all types that scan and photograph your plates and your face, and the currency scanners for large amounts of federal currency as you pass under the emitters. Interior checkpoints are a daily fact of life for us truck drivers.
@skat5268
5 жыл бұрын
This is one of the pitfalls associated with all these "departments" of the government. They can do whatever they want and interpret as they see fit until you have to use your own money and time against your own taxpayer dollars to take them to court. Then you have to pray you get a judge that works to uphold the constitution vice their own political agenda.
@DanLoFat
5 жыл бұрын
if I were pulled over by border patrol in Michigan I do believe I would speak French to them every question that would ask me and it would answerr in French. Oui, the people.
@BoobzTwo
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for such a timely response after your Canadian border video. I agree with you whole heartedly.
@rmdebla
5 жыл бұрын
To us veterans who have served in war zones, it just seems the U.S. border is a civilian definition of a "no mans' land" area: set up to screen/protect the base it surrounded where possible to create.
@clintrichardsonclintfromny203
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for finally touching on this topic. Its not at all an unfounded conspiracy. Stingray call intercepts as well. There are many things going on that cant be easily proven and its nice to see someone with their head on straight can see this as well.
@hazlett1927
4 жыл бұрын
This government, long ago, crossed the threshold and became a more powerful and invasive government than the founders rebelled against.
@patrickday4206
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah and the populace has been brainwashed about patriotism to your country instead of to your fellow countrymen.
@davidlieberman6512
4 жыл бұрын
Every time I visit my dad I have to go through a border patrol check point, it's not fun. When it's 110° and it takes you 40 minutes to get to the officer carrying a m16 and 2 others walk around the vehicle with drug sniffing dogs and carrying a m16, while being asked are you a citizen...this check point is on I-10 in New Mexico.
@rolandking4123
5 жыл бұрын
How enlightening. Once again I learn something new and fascinating on your channel. Keep up the good work
@norioxoximeikushi7741
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for addressing this issue. This issue has bothered me ever since first encountering and being stopped by the US Customs and Border Patrol many miles within the USA. I've been driving commercial vehicles since 1980 and there are permanent CBP check points in at least TX, NM and CA well within the USA. As much as I didn't like it, I could somehow see the reasoning behind these checkpoints since they're set up north of Mexico. I also didn't appreciate that they also used drug dogs, not that I ever use or carry illegal substances. Willie Nelson was famously stopped and arrested for possession at one of these check points. What was particularly irksome is during the time I drove for Greyhound in the 1990s, driving a route between Montreal, Canada and Boston, MA, The CBP on numerous occasions, would set up a temporary check point at a rest area along I-89 southbound in Vermont, well within the USA border. I never questioned the agents, as I was aware they're following orders, but I always felt there's something wrong with this.
@scotthedrick2460
5 жыл бұрын
Couple this with civil forfeiture. My father used to regularly travel with several thousand dollars in cash when he went to land auctions. Some auctions in Las Vegas required cash only. Then we went through an immigration checkpoint on I-10 in Texas. They just waved us through, but after that he began opening bank accounts in the places he intended to buy then wire the money a few weeks before the trip so it would be far harder for the officer to presume the money on our persons was drug related, confiscate it, then tell us we have to go to court to get our own property back. Now it's all but impossible to open an account by mail or over the phone because terrorists and all that, making it that much harder to buy anything involving a significant amount of money where you don't live.
@douglass69
5 жыл бұрын
I agree we need to protect the border, but cops will routinely step over the line on what they can legally do.
@wbweldingbikerbride2031
5 жыл бұрын
If it is legal than they are not stepping over the line. Just saying.
@larryhall7998
5 жыл бұрын
@@wbweldingbikerbride2031 Your an idiot, just saying
@qx4n9e1xp
5 жыл бұрын
We should make stepping over the line illegal.
@wbweldingbikerbride2031
5 жыл бұрын
@@larryhall7998 Larry. I didn't say I agree with. If the law is written that way than they are fully within their rights to do so. The only people that usually disagree with the law are the ones either breaking it or the one's who are offended by it ! I also live in a border area. Pass through 2,3 times a week. No problem. 100 % support ! Still saying...........
@wbweldingbikerbride2031
5 жыл бұрын
@@qx4n9e1xp Agree. Any person of law enforcement or public office that abuses their position should be nail to the wall and publically ridiculed !
@Randy1743
5 жыл бұрын
As a former So. California resident that lived well past the Mexican border I have had many encounters with the border patrol at checkpoints and on the road. I've been searched, pulled over, and chased by border patrol agents when I lived in San Diego County. One time the border patrol tried to pursue me on a rural mountain road I had to drive on to get to where I was living at the time, but managed to out run them late at night after returning from a fishing trip with a load of Albacore tuna in the trunk of the car. The encounter even made it to our local newspaper a few weeks later since a reporter with the paper happened to be riding with the border patrol agents. They thought I was a smuggler trying to get away. I knew it was me since he mentioned the date, time, and description of my car! The height of it all was one time stopping at a permanent checkpoint they have near Temecula, CA and told to pull over to the secondary search area with my then 86 year old former World War 2 veteran father sitting next to me. We sat for awhile until a border agent came over and notices my dad and says that we can leave with no explanation why we were stopped. Hate to think what would have happened if I was by myself. I think my dad may have saved me from something worse. The border patrol seemed to hate me.
@koobs4549
5 жыл бұрын
Awesome video! I used to live in Southern AZ & came across CPB checkpoints all the time. It always bugged me but I was never harassed & 100% of the time, as soon as you stated your citizenship they always waved us on. It still bothered me that as a citizen of this country I was being questioned about my citizenship well within the border of said nation. It was interesting to find out about the 100 mile buffer zone. While it makes sense, I do agree that we shouldn’t be arbitrarily giving up our rights because other people aren’t respecting the laws of this nation.
@bkip20002
4 жыл бұрын
While living in San Diego, driving and hiking the back roads and trails, I've had many encounters with the Border Patrol, all very sociable and friendly... except once. I was Geocaching (a game) along a fairly busy road that is within .5 miles of the border, where there is a steady flow of Border Patrol vehicles. I was outside my vehicle scrounging around the shoulder of the road when a BP vehicle pulled in behind me. A female agent came out and spent about five minutes questioning me, before a male agent got out of the vehicle, carrying his M-4 (was that really necessary?). He asked me mostly the same questions and then told me (not asked) to open my truck, which I did (it was full of hiking gear). After a bit they left but the entire episode left me with a very bad feeling for that particular agent.
@cashstore1
5 жыл бұрын
Whenever I drive in Southern California, or Southern Arizona I have to go through immigration checkpoints. It's a guaranteed thing. Usually they ask if I am a citizen then quickly let me pass. Other times they look at me and see we are not Hispanic and don't even talk to us, as they just wave us through. Most of the time the people manning the checkpoints are themselves Hispanic. At no time have I felt harassed or threatened, but at all times I was annoyed.
@drivingnewengland-thedrive
5 жыл бұрын
Steve, I see this in New Hampshire on I93 southbound near Woodstock NH. I first saw this type of 100 mile checkpoint back in 1998. The point they pick is close to the 100 mile limit, it’s around 85 mile from the border. They normally perform these checkpoints during the Laconia motorcycle week, which is the week prior to Father’s Day. The location they pick is a spot between two exits 31 and 32 which has a fairly large distance between them. They have the whole kit and caboodle out there with multiple RV units, plenty of cruisers and suv’s. I drove through it once, nothing happened to me other than the traffic jam they caused. I got to the checkpoint and they just let me pass through. But after that if I see the checkpoint while I am traveling north I will return south on another road.
@looneyburgmusic
5 жыл бұрын
I had a run-in with Border Patrol in upstate NH late one night - Decided to try the "cooperative" approach for a change, just out of curiosity. The agent asked if I was a US Citizen, and if my wife and kids were all citizens, I said "yes". He asked if he could "look through" our car, I said, "good luck, I'm not responsible if you lose a finger in that mess back there," (we were on the way home from an extended trip, our minivan was a total and complete disaster, every inch trashed by three hyperactive children who had been cooped up in a car for far too long). He did a quick look, gave up it seemed, then asked if he could "Examine" my phone. I said, "Sure, here you go," and handed it to him - locked. When the agent noticed and asked me to unlock the phone I pounced. I stopped being "cooperative" and "friendly", and put on my best "irritated and impatient" attitude. I asked why should I have to unlock my phone when the agent himself had only asked if he could "examine" it, which I had allowed him to do, then said that I felt I had been more than cooperative with the stop, had a long drive still ahead of me, and wanted to be on my way so I could get my kids home and into bed. There was a long pause, then he said, "Have a safe ride home," handed me back my phone, and we were on our way. Sometimes picking your battles with people like Border Patrol isn't just a matter of the "Big Picture", it's knowing when in the encounter to be easy-going and cooperative, and when to shut them down. By answering his questions, and letting him look through my mess of a car, which did no real harm, I had set that agent up to be disappointed when he got to the real point of the stop - getting access to my smartphone. He couldn't claim that I was being "uncooperative", or "difficult", because I hadn't been, until maybe ten or fifteen minutes into the stop, at which point I think any reasonable person would be justified in becoming impatient. The moral of the story? If that agent had done the smart thing, and asked to see my smartphone FIRST, instead of last, things probably would have gone a lot differently I'm sure, but he didn't, and so the good guys got win that night.
@candlstudios
5 жыл бұрын
There is a subtle difference between entering the country, at the border, and being stopped within 100 miles of the border. When entering the country you are required to answer the Agent's questions. If you refuse they can deny you entry into the United States. At "inland" border checkpoints the 5th amendment applies. People need to refuse to answer all questions and ask to be set free. If we all did this these inland checkpoints would quickly disappear. They are allowed to stop you without reasonable suspicion but you are not required to answer any of their questions. They cannot detain you indefinitely merely because you won't answer their questions. Can they order you out of the car? Yell at you? Threaten you with all kinds of stuff? Sure. Don't fall for it. You don't have to answer a single question.
@r.f.pennington746
5 жыл бұрын
"Constitution-Free Zone!" I believe you nailed it. Living in El Paso, there isn't ANY direction I can drive out of town without having to stop at Checkpoint Charlie. For anyone living in the interior, they don't see this as any big deal, I'm sure, but it gets older than heck to be sitting on the interstate for up to an hour in triple-digit heat just trying to get from point A to B. Couple that with the fact that most folks (8 or 9 out of 10) around here are a light brown to a toasty black and you can easily see how irritating this can be. There are working folk who have to sit in these lines multiple times a day just to carry out their jobs. Mr. Carvin below indicates that he is employed by DHS and only works within his guidelines. Hats off to him (seriously), however, over the last decade or so my experience is that he is the exception. Militarise a LEO (of which I was one, plus a combat vet) and it is inevitable that we will play with our toys, so to speak. If I had to rate my overall experiences at Checkpoint Charlie from a 1 (eezy breezy) to 10 (someone's out of control/pushing their authority), I'd give it a six. Think we need (as suggested below) to have more lawmakers drive through these checkpoints or have other out-of-the-blue encounters in this 100 mile CFZ. It may change some things. If we just think it through, we'll see that there's another way, just takes some brain grease and commitment to efficiency. OK, here come the trolls...
@foxiedogitchypaws7141
5 жыл бұрын
I love driving down into ElPaso, it is very pretty and seeing all the colorful stores, houses. Last time was 2005. Since all the problems with the wall going up, I drive I40 instead when going home, Tucson. Always knew I would be home within 8 hours when I got to ElPaso or sad when going back to Alabama when I passed ElPaso.
@r.f.pennington746
5 жыл бұрын
Well, next time drop in! We haven't seen any wall going up, still one of the safest cities over a half-mil, and you can still head across the river, get a great steak dinner, couple of drinks, dessert, and change back from a Jackson. It's just those darn checkpoints...
@mbell420
5 жыл бұрын
What happens if you refuse to answer the question at the checkpoint? From what I understand is that they have the right to ask but you have the right to not answer. I can understand in practice it's probably not that simple. As someone in Florida subject to this BS at all times and places would love to know about hands on experience with these people.
@r.f.pennington746
5 жыл бұрын
@@mbell420 By law, they have the right to stop, ask, 'detain' if they 'deem necessary,' and most of these YT vids of people acting all macho end not so well. If the DHS officers don't want to seem the bad guy on the vid, they let the person roll through, then nail them a mile down the road. The common person won't win at the checkpoint. I talked with the glass replacement fellow in Sierra Blanca, TX. He makes a LOT of money off of the checkpoint a few miles down the freeway. Yes, our rights are slowly eroding away.
@mittnival5562
4 жыл бұрын
"Think we need (as suggested below) to have more lawmakers drive through these checkpoints or have other out-of-the-blue encounters in this 100 mile CFZ. " Yeah, like Trump in "the Breast" and all of carryalls with his entourage. If it were to happen, how fast would all the guns that both sides have come out ... my point being about how unequally the laws are applied. Then the color of Trump's skin is cause to suspect he is an alien, in Area 51 or in "The Men in Black" terms, isn't it ?
@libertarian1637
4 жыл бұрын
I live in NYS and have been stopped by Border Patrol while 11-16 miles from the border. I was with family and friends with 6 people in the car all LEOs in 1 form or another all who knew the law. CBP asked us where we are from and what we are doing. We all said we lived in NY and once said CBP pushed for more info. At which point we all pressed and informed them of the Supreme Court decision limiting their power and stop duration. They didn’t like being checked by locals, non-feds. If we weren’t in the know and didn’t push the issue are rights would have been violated more than they were. This is governmental over-reach and a misuse of power. Some people get into law enforcement for good reasons and act lawfully and ethically but some get into it for the power. These people need to be reminded of the law not just by the people but the courts because all it takes for evil, or tyranny to triumph is for good people to do nothing.
@terrymiller552
5 жыл бұрын
Several years ago I was in El Paso on business and drove up to Ruidoso, NM for some weekend sightseeing. I was surprised to find a border checkpoint a few miles into New Mexico, where I had to show proof of citizenship and the car was searched. I had assumed that the Border Patrol didn’t know Texas was part of the US. It makes sense now. Thanks, as always, for enlightening me.
@L1V2P9
3 жыл бұрын
I am a Canadian. I used to vacation in the US. I love the finger lakes area and I like the American people, as they are warm, friendly and helpful. I don't come down any more. I just don't feel safe, and I really don't know whether I feel more threatened by the criminals or those who are paid to enforce the law.
@elbuggo
5 жыл бұрын
Airport is also a port of entry, and I guess they also have a 100 miles zone around them, so most of the country is within this 100 miles border zone.
@EwanMarshall
5 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately while articles often point this out, maps and actual data do not seem to take this into account.
@joebleed
5 жыл бұрын
I think it's just 100 miles from the border, not points of entry. Still bad either way.
@ALCRAN2010
5 жыл бұрын
Points of entry could also include entrances of narco tunnels. Lmao
@EwanMarshall
5 жыл бұрын
@@joebleed it is from any "border" and a border is defined as any "land, sea border or port of entry"
@kurtwebb3726
5 жыл бұрын
@@EwanMarshall The law does state border not port of entry. International airports are thus not covered because they are two disticted things. I'm sure as soon as someone in Washington shakes themselves out of their stuper, gives their intern cab fare home and goes back to work, they will correct this mistake.
@stevenwilgus8982
5 жыл бұрын
"Show me your papers!".... The gestapo. Sounds familiar. This is extremely disturbing. I shared it on Facebook. I live in El Paso, Texas. So yes, it affects me.
@lovecats6856
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks to covid, we could soon be asked for papers just to drive to another city.
@bloominginplace4791
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I live near the river, with border patrol being here in town. Our rights with these guys have been a topic of conversation for quite some time amongst our neighbors. We asked a local police officer who basically said you do not have any when dealing with them. You have just confirmed it.
@pilotgirl5953
5 жыл бұрын
WOW, So glad I'm Canadian.....however totally agree that there is a difference between "the border" and the 100 miles in. Up until a few years ago I never felt the USA was a foreign country. Now not too sure....
@chrisnoel1646
5 жыл бұрын
Greetings Steve from your number 2 fan! A few years ago my wife and I and our young daughter were coming back into America from Canada. For whatever reason we got flagged for an extensive detention and search. They made us leave all our possessions in our car, including my young daughter’s diaper bag. We were held for over an hour as our car and persons were searched. We were not allowed to retrieve anything from our vehicle to change my daughter’s soiled diaper. When finally allowed to return to our car we changed her diaper in the seat and I stepped away with the soiled diaper asking the nearest border patrol agent where a trash can was located. “Get in your car and go” was what I was told. I responded I needed to throw this away at which point I was forcefully told to leave. Definitely an eye opening experience for the uninitiated at the border.
@JTA1961
5 жыл бұрын
It's because they were already full of shit.📉☻📈
@frankstocker1921
5 жыл бұрын
I am glad you brought this up. Had this issue twice at the Douglas, Arizona entry point. I am very intuitive as to how these custom agents interact with foreign nationals. I am a tax payer. I do not like it when I am treated differently than foreign nationals. When I am ask if I am a United States Citizen and I tell them I am and prove to them with a passport card and state driver's license, there is always some bullshit response like your passport card is a forgery. I am aware of United States v. Martinez-Fuertes. In that ruling, the Supreme Court stated that agents have authority to ask your citizen status and that the border patrol check points are legal, that these stops doesn't violate the 4th Amendment do as long as the interaction is brief. However, once they know that I am a United States Citizen, I refuse to answer any other questions and ask for an attorney if they are insinuating that I have committed a crime or in the process of committing a crime. I involk my maranda rights. The agents are often dumbfounded. They say it's DHS policy. I tell them DHS policy doesn't trump, no pun intended, the Constitution or a Supreme Court ruling regarding this issue. I am a retired military officer and I don't give a scrap about their policies.
@beemerbill1572
5 жыл бұрын
I have been on an Amtrak train when Border Patrol agents came aboard at the Depew-Buffalo station and started asking people if they were US citizens. I simply responded the same as I do at a DUI Checkpoint, i.e., “I decline to answer your question”. I got a dirty look but the agent moved on to other passengers.
@muzzmac160
4 жыл бұрын
Remember the border could be interpreted as 100 miles from any international airport.
@troyevitt2437
3 жыл бұрын
Or coastline. I'm in Charleston, SC.
@kirkfranks1
5 жыл бұрын
So you will be expecting visitors later this week from CBP once they watch this video?
@FCoxUSMC
4 жыл бұрын
Went to Michigan to visit from Kentucky with my step daughter. We got stopped by the boarder patrol and asked witch country we were from. Like a bunch of true hillbillies we both gave the wrong answer simotainusly. We both said Kentucky. The guy looks at us smiles and says ok go on your way.
@flamingospy5286
5 жыл бұрын
I wish more lawyers would have Utube channels. . You cover such a large range of topics that could ultimately affect any of us. Very informative and entertaining. Love your channel.
@jamesemullican
5 жыл бұрын
I-8, in Arizona, travels east-west, and never crosses a border. Yet, it has several, perminant, border patrol checkpoints where people are routinely stopped, and, frequently, we hear about the abuse of power of the agents at these checkpoints.
@atticstattic
5 жыл бұрын
I-8, in Arizona, is within 100 miles of the Mexican border...
@pseudorandomly
5 жыл бұрын
@@atticstattic You're correct, but that doesn't make it right.
@atticstattic
5 жыл бұрын
@@pseudorandomly That's another video...
@pseudorandomly
5 жыл бұрын
@@atticstattic A fair fraction of _this_ video argues that it's not right, too.
@atticstattic
5 жыл бұрын
@@pseudorandomly _This_ video gave a heads up on a gray area of the law, "I think" and "I feel" aren't arguments - I would anticipate a further legal dissection in a subsequent video....
@hankbon8512
4 жыл бұрын
This happened to me about 100 miles into AZ. I was in my military BDU at that time I got chased down by a border patrol, when I was pulled over I asked why I was pulled over he would not say why until I presented my driver license also I presented my military ID, he said the reason he pulled me over because at that time I had purchased this car that I was fixing up and shocks were worn out so my car had bounced, he said he pulled me over because of the bounce of my worn out shocks and he say because of that I could’ve been carrying drugs so I was very upset I felt that was wrong for him to assume that because my car was bouncing due to the worn out shocks I was carrying drugs
@ncplantdoctor
5 жыл бұрын
In the late 90s I was forced to wait in line for quite a time and then go into an I10 rest area in New Mexico for a border patrol check of every vehicle passing that point that day. I was not at a border and had not crossed a border and most of the cars delayed that day had not been in Mexico. They were searching every vehicle for hitchhiking illegals. Searching every vehicle on an interstate highway, even for a quick look, means long delays. Now I know what authority they had.
@mr.h5436
5 жыл бұрын
daily life here in so cal
@Ice-Fall
5 жыл бұрын
Why would it bother someone being stopped and questioned 100 miles from an actual border, BECAUSE you DID NOT CROSS A BORDER TO BE THERE!
@HondoTrailside
4 жыл бұрын
And then there is the fact that illegals are part of government policy, so the government allows them to enter, then removes everyone else's rights to police them. Convenient.
@JaimeWarlock
4 жыл бұрын
@Nobody Knows From a long time ago. A friend of mine (US citizen) lived with his illegal Mexican girlfriend in San Diego. Anyway, they decided to visit friends a bit north and had to drive through that checkpoint. Immigration arrested her for being illegal and him for transporting her. They were both put on this bus and sent to Mexico. Apparently, they mixed him up with the illegals. He just kept his mouth shut and was released in Mexico with her. I got a letter asking me to come down to pick him up. Told me the whole story on the trip back.
@The_Privateer
5 жыл бұрын
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me. -Martin Niemöller
@richardsindric8727
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you Steve for recognizing this topic. One related topic the search and seizure just for crossing from another state into California.
@greggleason8467
5 жыл бұрын
The thing im interested in is can they break into your house without a warrant because youre within 100 miles of the border...i get they can do the second best thing (literally stand right outside your house and wait for you to come out) but the house breakin idea is concerning to me...
@johnhouchins3156
5 жыл бұрын
@Micheal Williamsonfirst they have to PROVE it. Those pesky rights can certainly get in the way of expediency.
@greggleason8467
5 жыл бұрын
@Micheal Williamson i agree. But that means they know, and as such they should easily be able to get a warrant. As such my question still stands. Can they harras citizens by breaking into their house without a warrant and just saying "oh we had 'probable cause'"
@chriswolf4828
4 жыл бұрын
Micheal Williamson It’s funny, they stole this country from the native Americans and then say they own the land and have a right to keep people out because they (the ruling class) say so.
@greggleason8467
4 жыл бұрын
@@chriswolf4828 no
@greggleason8467
4 жыл бұрын
@Jaime Alonzo and yes. I did more research on it. Yes they can, they dont have to follow the law in this matter
@williamwallace176
5 жыл бұрын
1) NYC PD had a problem with their "Stop, Question and Frisk" policy. 2) My Dad had a golfing friend who was with US Border Patrol. This friend turned up missing for almost two months. On his return to the golf links he told my Dad he had been on what was, at the time, the largest immigration raid ever in Chicago on the meat packing industry.
@audiewilliams3417
5 жыл бұрын
I have been troubled about the state of our republic for many years. The problem is that officials who violate the rights of citizens are not held accountable, the contrary is usually true, that the agency they represent will defend the bad behavior.
@benrobicheau640
5 жыл бұрын
I live in Canada. A couple of years ago I spent two days and travelled over 1000 miles in the US apparently without crossing the border. I entered at Niagara Falls, drove along the south side of Lake Ontario and the border to eventually exit the US at Calais, Maine. Since I was never more than a few miles from the border, I guess I technically never actually crossed the border.
@jmurphy6011
5 жыл бұрын
Understanding what people say has always been a problem for you I guess.
@duanejackson6718
5 жыл бұрын
Ben Robicheau good point. if the line is 100 mi thick both sides should be able to enter and travel within that hundred miles without ever crossing the border.
@duanejackson6718
5 жыл бұрын
and by their definition of a hundred mile thick border a Mexican should be able to come into San Diego and live and work there without have ever crossing the border. he's just inside the line.
@russellthompson3201
5 жыл бұрын
There are places in Texas where there are permanent CBP checkpoints. Taking US 77 north out of the Rio Grand Valley there is a checkpoint. In college, I was going from the valley back to Corpus Christi and was stopped. Fortunately for me, no alcohol screening. Yes, I was dumb!
@murraystewartj
5 жыл бұрын
Mr. Lehto, I think this is one of the most important and well-reasoned posts you've done. Most citizens in democratic societies realize the importance of laws and the need for those laws to be enforced. It's when we get into the "unreasonable" zone that people need to stand up and get involved. A 100 mile border zone sounds about as reasonable as certain civil forfeiture scams - and is a perversion of law enforcement designed to skirt around rights that are supposedly guaranteed in your constitution. As someone posted earlier, when they came for me there was nobody left to speak out for me. And Steve, with all due respect, you could never pass as a Canadian. We'd just have to ask you one question: "Where did you grow up?" You'd raise your hand and indicate a point on it, and we'd all say, "Michigan is not part of Canada. We don't do the hand thing up here." Poker players call that a "tell".
@emknapp6713
5 жыл бұрын
Almost every time I travel the Ohio Turnpike there is a Boarder Patrol vehicle parked in the median around Sandusky.
@um5785
5 жыл бұрын
Steve, just a little suggestion, how about a discussion of some of the lesser quoted parts of the bill of rights like the 3rd amendment to the Constitution.
@PattyDung
4 жыл бұрын
That's funny, because one night, 4 soldiers knocked on my door. I gave them each a quarter and they left. It was Halloween.
@steveedmans3098
5 жыл бұрын
I was on vacation in AZ a few years ago and I drove down to Tombstone. On my return to Tucson there was a border patrol roadblock. My car was searched and as an afterthought I was asked if I was American. As I am a blonde haired, blue eyed englishman I just smiled and said “no”. After that the officer just waved me on.
@Hammerhea64
5 жыл бұрын
I have seen a border patrol bus headed north of sun valley Arizona (north of I-40 e. of Holbrook) out in the empty area and come back out about 2 hours later with about 50 FIFTY people on it. That is about 400 FOUR HUNDRED miles north of the border with Mexico.
@tommyt8998
5 жыл бұрын
Law and constitutional protection s are meaningless if police who intentionally ignore them aren't punished for their behavior
@caf68
5 жыл бұрын
So then why is there a border patrol office in Battle Creek? Definitely over the 100 mile zone!
@MrNoldacre
5 жыл бұрын
Why is the police department not located in the prison? An office is an office, there are things besides checkpoints that ICE does.
@1gearwrench
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for showing us The law on the matter is as clear as mud...as usual.
@daveisnothere
2 жыл бұрын
Tucson AZ is within the border zone but Phoenix is about 110 miles from Mexico
@garyrichards407
5 жыл бұрын
All I can say is wow
@macmcatee611
5 жыл бұрын
From what you described I could also see ICE considering a hundred mile radius around something like the Atlanta airport. It is an international port of entry/departure, hence part of the US border. I would think they could apply the same logic of enforcement for a 100 miles around the airport, or any airport that has international flights and where people coming and going would have to pass through customs and immigration.
@markelsesser1786
5 жыл бұрын
Good observation...
@niyablake
5 жыл бұрын
Also with 100 miles of navigable waters
@lornecheese
5 жыл бұрын
So, is there anywhere within the US that is further than 100 miles from an international port (I.e. international airport)?
@niyablake
5 жыл бұрын
@@lornecheese yes but no were that you want to live
@niyablake
5 жыл бұрын
@Dennis Walker remote places were your nearest neighbors are mile a way need to call 999/911 there were be there with in a few hours. Or you are in rural America with the same issues with 999/911 . Need to see your Dr. that could be 90 mile one way trip. Rural hospitals are closing in America. If you eliminated the airport rule then my statement would not be valid . But all major cites in the Us that are out side of the 100 mile boarder have international airports . So that leaves you in rual isolated area of the US were services are lacking
@joshmartimez2235
5 жыл бұрын
This is a real thing I've been through two of these check points one in Arizona and one in Texas.
@rifke
4 жыл бұрын
I’m doing a photo journalism story on the NON INVASION on the US/Mexico Border right now. I get harassed by Border Patrol around the cities and towns but NEVER see them in the remote areas. I refuse to answer any of their questions because I am not breaking any laws.
@GlennHamblin
5 жыл бұрын
Great video Steve. I didn't know about the 100 mile zone, and I live within it here in Tucson, AZ. I'm also quite concerned with the vast number of laws especially at the federal level that are just ridiculous. There is no way anyone, even law enforcement can possibly know of them let alone understand them. Our liberty has been and continues to be encroached upon. I would like to see a law that requires any new law must remove 5 laws from the books. Or simply any law that has not been enforced or acted on in two years become automatically invalidated. Hope you had a great 4thvof July!
@michaelb893
5 жыл бұрын
I live in Massachusetts but have never seen a citizen parole stop.
@sheldonskaggs138
5 жыл бұрын
I've been thru alot of them, driving a semitruck. Most of the time, its are you a US citizen, wait for the drug and person sniffing dogs to go around, do you have anyone else (sometimes yes sometimes no), on the yes they ask if my codriver is a US citizen and I'll answer for them since they are sleeping. If I was at the border than I'll agree both of us need to be awake. Had one get all up yelling that we both need to be upfront and told him that was a lie because it's the first time out of hundreds of time going thru these check points that it has been demanded of me. I just went thru one earlier that day and they didn't require this. The supervisor came over from him yelling at me and me pulling both brakes, letting the air out of the system setting the brakes. The supervisor ask about my codriver said she been sleeping for about 6 hours, about that time she poke her head out from the curtains to the back and told them she was a US citizen. Anyways from my perspective, it's just a minority of them being d*cks or are just from the actual border. At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it
@CplSkiUSMC
5 жыл бұрын
I got stopped at a Border Patrol checkpoint in Arizona in the middle of the desert a long way from the border... but I think it was within 100 miles of the border and you just explained the legality of it to me. The Border guys weren't jerks, and I actually felt a bit sorry for them standing out there in 110 degree heat, but it never quite set right with me to be stopped and questioned in my own country... especially since I'm a combat veteran. The California fruit nazi checkpoint always pisses me off.
@noaslfakers6618
5 жыл бұрын
Interior: Functional Equivalent Checkpoints (Yes) 24 mls inland. San Antonio way over 100 miles (Yes) No to Search.
@joechang8696
5 жыл бұрын
it might be a good idea to discuss this matter in court (if charged) or in a forum with your congressperson. but perhaps skip debating this with the individual on-duty border patrol agent.
@robinslater171
5 жыл бұрын
Lewis Cole Who is going to protect us from our “protectors”? ICE pays a $50 commission for the sheriff to deliver suspects to them?
@marthas8108
4 жыл бұрын
My parents and I were driving in Arizona years ago -- miles from the border -- and were stopped in an immigration checkpoint. The agent looked at us all, smiled, and said "everyone's a citizen here, right?" We all nodded and he cheerfully waved us through. We were miles away before I realized, "hey Mom, you lied to that agent. You're NOT a citizen!" And she wasn't. She'd been in this country and married to my Dad for so long we all thought of her as American. But she still had a green card back then. AND she was from a country experiencing serious terrorist attacks at that time. But... she was white -- from Ireland -- so she wasn't doubted or asked for proof. Would her word be taken without proof if she'd been Hispanic, and would she have skated through if the agent had discovered her "lie?" I seriously doubt it. IMHO, this law has abuse written all over it, because white folks like my family get waved through, while brown folks have to prove their citizenship even though the Constitution says they shouldn't have to.
@Ken6151
5 жыл бұрын
Martin Niemöller summed it up when speaking about the Nazis. Look up his quote.
@DrChrisB
5 жыл бұрын
the US claims “territorial waters” out to 24 nautical miles (27.6 miles), so wouldn’t that constitute the “border”? thus, in Florida wouldn’t those interior areas that are MORE than 72.4 miles from shore be EXcluded from the 100 mile border zone where the CBP claims it can “freely operate”?
@stevelehto
5 жыл бұрын
Logic? Why would that apply here? (I agree with you - but it's not what we think that counts).
@TomSFlint
5 жыл бұрын
287.1Definitions. (a)(1) External boundary. The term external boundary, as used in section 287(a)(3) of the Act, means the land boundaries and the territorial sea of the United States extending 12 nautical miles from the baselines of the United States determined in accordance with international law. (2) Reasonable distance. The term reasonable distance, as used in section 287(a) (3) of the Act, means within 100 air miles from any external boundary of the United States or any shorter distance which may be fixed by the chief patrol agent for CBP, or the special agent in charge for ICE, or, so far as the power to board and search aircraft is concerned any distance fixed pursuant to paragraph (b) of this section.
@duanejackson6718
5 жыл бұрын
Chris B excellent point!
@jbtcajun5260
5 жыл бұрын
Been through those checkpoints where a drug dog in the hands of the agent asking questions. I asked if the dog could tell and the honor less officer claimed ot could. Where do they get these fools.
@Nodularguy1
5 жыл бұрын
Lack of training: I hear this everytime police or DHS mess up. How about learn your job ! As a mechanic I had to learn more than my job provided. As a service manager I had to learn more than my job provided. As a sales manager I am constantly learning to improve my performance. "I am so lazy I only do the bare minimum and dont know my jobs functions , but hey look at this sweet gun I carry" ~ Every lazy cop/DHS/TSA
@CRSolarice
5 жыл бұрын
You speak no exaggerations. I am a US citizen by birth and just think of the time I tried to re-enter and had forgotten my passport. I now realize what t was like in Nazi occupied Germany. Those people turned my life inside and out. They had access to every little droplet of information on me and even so I'm lucky that I was able to come back otherwise I would be a man without a country, literally. The "agent" in charge scolded me worse than my father or grandfather ever did and if they had had a woodshed I feel that I could have been beaten within inches of my life (ok, exageration...). I kid you not I felt like I was entering Nazi Germany.
@dynorat12
5 жыл бұрын
Yes and I don't have the new driving lic yet and I don't have my passport in my clovebox
@jokrmidnite
5 жыл бұрын
If a Boarder checkpoint was set up in Washington DC near every government facilities even the pentagon and every political elected official plus there staff were stopped everyday question and searched and oh by the way we smell marijuana, do you think things would change. Don't forget to check the High Court of the land also.
@69Polie69
5 жыл бұрын
Maybe because Washingon D.C. is not a State?
@duanejackson6718
5 жыл бұрын
the only border wall we need is one around Washington DC. the bulk of our problems would be over. everything else could be handled locally.
@jefferyparker7937
2 жыл бұрын
Correct DC is a district not a state. Also there is no wall needed if you are hinting at politics. Those congressmen and senators are all from another state.
@russellthompson3201
5 жыл бұрын
Trivia, the one Metro area NOT in that last is Dallas/Fort Worth.
@jonyemm
2 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure if Steve mentions this or not but over half, around 2/3, or 66% of Americans live within 100 miles (by air, or "as the crow flies") of the boarder.
@AYVABTU001
5 жыл бұрын
20 miles should be more than sufficient to complete their duties. There is an obvious issue here in that if they are running such a tight ship up north whats going on down south? Last I heard there wasn't an issue with massive abouts of Canadians flooding the country. 21k agents would be more than enough to Patrol the southern border around the clock. They would get more done to assist people in need (help them not die in the desert), and the country would spend no more money on the agency than current amounts. The fact that they operate on the assumption of guilt (non-citizenship), because that's what we are really talking about, is by all accounts un-American and further evidence they didnt do their job in the first place. As you may have guessed, yes I live in one of the southern border states. Yes, it's an issue, and yes, it needs to stop. We all know what "it" is. Housing, infrastructure, and jobs need to be created to handle what we have right now, and until those things have caught up we cannot properly serve those who wish to participate in 'The American Dream'. Obviously I have mixed ideas on the issue of "it", but the BP act like blood sucking tyrants who run around harassing citizens and get nothing right. How they have any credibility in a courtroom is beyond me given all the potential video evidence available online.
@mr.h5436
5 жыл бұрын
More than half of illegals get off the plane, got to Disneyland/school/whatever and just stay here.
@HonestTakeOnStupid
5 жыл бұрын
It's always fun when I have to go through the checkpoint in i8 between phonix and San Diego
@johnhouchins3156
5 жыл бұрын
Been there done that and it's irritating as... As a Zonie I've witnessed the "random" stop too many times including a neighbor of mine who was simply DWM (Driving While Mexican). This time I was a passenger, and I wasn't questioned even though I could pass as a Canadian.
@chipjumper
5 жыл бұрын
45,000+ sworn and armed CBP Officers and Border Patrol Agents. (In 2014)
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