CBP Officer Searches For Legitimacy

In a significant departure from standard operational procedures,Customs and Border Protection officers, who normally work Ports of Entry along the border, are observed working the primary stop location of a Border Patrol checkpoint over 40 miles North of the border along a public highway that runs East to West. This is the continuation of a shift in Homeland Security tactics first observed on August 21, 2009 in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDjB1e7CNF4

Additionally, a CBP officer is observed attempting to open and search a container in a private conveyance absent consent from the driver or probable cause. This action violates limitations imposed on internal checkpoint operations by the U.S. Supreme Court in U.S. v Ortiz (1975) and U.S. v Martinez-Fuerte (1976).

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[MrJo31021]

mm i think the person who made this video should read the USA PATRIOT Act

[CheckpointUSA]

mm I think MrJo31021 should read the Bill of Rights and case law surrounding the legitimate powers of Border Patrol agents at internal suspicionless checkpoints.

[bigtimepimpin666]

so much to say...

first of al you have a lot of balls.

Second how ironic. So the goal is to ONLY interdict 30% or violations at the port of entry... setting low goals and failing to achieve them. At the border where I enter and leave the US they now have BP agents helping Customs at the Port of Entry. Where as in your CP inside the US they pull customs agents formt he Port of Entry.

[CheckpointUSA]

Yep - nothing but dog and pony shows designed to entertain the masses bigtimepimpin666. If they were serious about border security, they'd shoot for 100% interdiction at POE's and put the Border Patrol on the border. Pretty simple really. The fact that they don't makes it clear what their mission isn't....

[CheckpointUSA]

I'm not sure why you think government agents have the right to stop, seize, detain, interrogate & search hard working people inside the country absent any individualized suspicion tomminty?

Oh wait, you're from the United Kingdom. That explains your love affair with big government & your contempt for those willing to stand up for their rights.

[pepper0345]

How do you know that the red truck did not give consent. you were not in his truck he might of gave gthe other officer permission

[grunder20]

good inspection officers.

[Mellitan1]

Why is it that the uneducated children and arrogant Red Necks make such ignorant comments? Its people like you all who make these videos standing up for our rights as Americans and our rights!!!!! The CBP is bull shit!!!!!

[CheckpointUSA]

Finally bigtimepimpin666, no imminent threat to the safety of these agents exist. They choose to stand in the middle of public highways and expose their faces and nametags to hundreds of thousands of individuals every day at checkpoints around the Southwest.

If exposing their faces and names to the public did indeed pose an immediate threat to their safety, they wouldn't be standing in the middle of public highways seizing people absent suspicion day after day.

[CheckpointUSA]

Tuffly claimed these videos were a violation of ARS 13-2401 which prohibits posting personal information about peace officers on the web if such posting poses an imminent threat to their safety & the poster new it at the time bigtimepimpin666. Unfortunately for Tuffly, videos of public servants standing in the middle of a public highway wearing public uniforms with a nametag paid for with public funds does not constitute personal information under the statute.

Further...

[CheckpointUSA]

...the statute defines what constitutes personal information and who exactly qualifies as a peace officer. Border Patrol agents are not State peace officers in AZ so don't even qualify & their public activities in the public sphere don't constitute personal information. Further, the statute itself is most likely unconstitutional as a prior restraint on freedom of speech. Similar statutes have been struck down as such in several other states.

[bigtimepimpin666]

@CheckpointUSA what state laws did they say you were violating?

and what would that have to do with your job that you should be fired?

I reminded a bully BP agent at an interiro CP about the Fourth ammendment. He didnt know what I was even talking about. Later he got so pissed off he called my unit in the miliatry to complaint about my attitude. It was liek complaining that Ishould like peanuts more than pretzels. Had nothing to do wiht my unit... they had no clue why the hell he called.