Homeland Security Checkpoint: Video Blog - Day 3

On January 20, 2008, I was seized for a third time at a Southern Arizona internal suspicionless homeland security checkpoint.

This checkpoint has been in operation for at least two weeks at a location over 40 miles North of the Southern border along SR86 in Southern Arizona

More information about this stop can be found at:

http://checkpointusa.org/blog/index.php/2008/01/21/p83

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• police
• state
• immigration
• checkpoints
• homeland
• security

[BroomeBlocker4]

You were kind of in the wrong. The officer was right, you were veering closer the barrier. However once he decided to stop you so he could do a check, he shouldn't of let you through, I found that more disturbing. The fact that he thought you were suspicious(rightly or wrongly so, but he thought you were suspicious) and let you through without checking you. If he is going to do that, no point him being there

[CheckpointUSA]

Wrong on both counts BroomeBlocker4. I was neither veering towards the barrier in any way that presented a hazard to the agent nor did the agent have any legal option other than to let me go. After all, this isn't some 3rd world tinpot dictatorship where gov't agents can arbitrarily cherry pick people off public streets & indefinitely detain them in the absence of consent or probable cause.

At least it wasn't before the passage of the NDAA....

[Marcus111147]

hey dude.... Why don't you get a LIFE?

[CheckpointUSA]

Hey dude, I have a life. Unfortunately armed Border Patrol agents who aren't actually patrolling the border keep interfering with it Marcus111147. Thanks for caring though.

[33BMX33]

just comply you dumb ass

[CheckpointUSA]

Make me authoritarian punk.

[CheckpointUSA]

What an ignorant, childish and unpatriotic thing to say vicjustice. Border Patrol agents harassing & intimidating domestic traffic inside the country instead of patrolling the border they're paid to patrol aren't protecting the country & seizing,interrogating & searching people absent probable cause is as un-American as it gets.

[vicjustice]

@CheckpointUSA I thought i was seeing it the correct way when i made that rude comment (according you a fool), but your reply made me realise how wrong i was, and i feel sorry for insulting you, i regret that. Thank you for not retaliating (like most people would). My apology, Man.

[CapnCrossbones]

Good on you sir , and good on the officer for having fair composure dealing with you. I think people like you are giving the government a good impression of how a lot of the public feels about those check stops. I also think that asking questions should never be wrong and authority should always answer concerns. Thanks for sharing this video sucks I just found it though...

[sengoku17]

@CheckpointUSA Please ignore the ignorant commentors, i bet they are the border patrol agents who sub to u

[Betoalonso25]

That's the way to do it dude good job fuck them ass holes

[crankabit]

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