Customs K9 Team Deployed At Internal Immigration Checkpoint

Putting to rest the lie that internal Border Patrol checkpoints are primarily used to stem the flow of illegal border crossers, this video clearly shows that the Department of Homeland Security routinely use so-called immigration checkpoints as a pretext to look for contraband including drugs, guns and currency.

In this video, I'm initially greeted by the stopping Border Patrol agent by name. The agent never asks my immigration status. Additionally, other Border Patrol agents on the South side of the checkpoint yell out my name as well.

While I'm being detained at primary by an agent who knows who I am along with my immigration status, a Customs & Border Protection K9 team is going to work on the passenger side of my vehicle sniffing for illegal contraband. The K9 handler isn't a Border Patrol agent. Rather, he's a Customs and Border Protection agent normally assigned to Ports of Entry where dogs are trained to search for drugs, guns and currency either entering or leaving the country at the actual border.

Why was this Customs unit being used at a so-called immigration checkpoint over 40 miles North of the border?

To make the legal issues clear, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled Border Patrol checkpoints inside the country must be limited in scope to brief immigration queries with any further detention or searching requiring consent or probable cause. Since there was obviously no question regarding my immigration status in the video, the sole purpose for the detention was clearly contraband interdiction.

This removes any ambiguity regarding the primary purpose of the stop and detention.

One possible explanation as to why a CBP K9 team was being utilized at an internal immigration checkpoint well inside the country along a road that never intersects the border, instead of a port of entry, is an expansion of the program discussed in this blog entry: https://www.checkpointusa.org/blog/index.php/2009/06/07/p156

For more information regarding suspicionless checkpoints in America, see: https://www.checkpointusa.org

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[AK94ME]

LOL you are a funny guy. My opinion is just as valid as yours and until a competent authority determines the correct one, my opinion carries just as much weight as yours.

I served over 20 years, currently I am retired, and I live in the southeast United States. However please feel free to visit, let me know how your court case is settled. Just for your knowledge I have never lost a civil or criminal case, nor has any governmental agency or myself ever settled out of court on any issue.

[CheckpointUSA]

Feel free to keep up on the status of my court case by visiting my website & blog AK94ME. I"ll be posting the latest in the near future. Just for your knowledge I've never lost a civil or criminal case either & I've been in court several times now regarding different checkpoint issues. I've even won pro-se.

Anyway, if you ever feel like coming out of retirement to help me win another, you know where to find me.

[AK94ME]

Lets see the American Civil Liberties Union was not interested in a violation of civil liberties and you had a ruling on several issues by the 9th Circuit Court (by the way in 2009 15 of the 16 cases from the 9th circuit that went to the Supreme Court were overturned)

No wonder the PA's were laughing at you.

[CheckpointUSA]

Most authoritarian punks like yourself do laugh at others who seek to assert their rights AK94ME. In my case, the government agents were laughing as well. That is until their claims of sovereign and qualified immunity were thrown out the window. They're not laughing anymore.

Nonetheless, I could use a good laugh myself. Why don't you set yourself up to be the primary stopping agent the next time I go through this checkpoint. We can have a good laugh together & see who has the last laugh.

[AK94ME]

Either you have a lawsuit or you do not, either it has been ruled upon or it has not. The ACLU provides free legal advice and representation to cases they accept. They tend to specify in civil rights law suits. Have you asked them for assistance and have you received a reply? Most civil rights lawsuits have been brought by people with little or no means.

So then did you go to trial? Was a verdict issued?

[CheckpointUSA]

I already stated I have an ongoing lawsuit AK94ME with all of the legal documentation freely available on my website & blog. The ACLU in my area wasn't interested in pursuing the case so I found other assistance. The case has gone on for 9 years, went up to the 9th circuit where I won on several issues & is now back in district court with a 2nd round of discovery taking place right now. If the judge doesn't grant summary judgment motions, a trial should take place early next year.

[roaringwaterbay]

@AK94ME the ACLU only take cases that basically appeal to their liberal bent. i will admit that sometimes that they win a ruling that actually helps everyone; this is more of an accident that by design, however. they should take on any violation of our civil rights, but it has to be the "right case." and, of course, what is "right," is merely how they happen to feel that day or maybe it depends on which way the wind is blowing.

[elitedefense72]

AK94ME is one hell of an institutionalized and mindless punk. I don't care what your assertions are. You come after me and try to violate my civil rights, I will put a bullet right between your eyes. This country's heading that direction anyway on a massive scale directly because people like you, who claim to have "served" (funny how "serve" means nothing more than to uphold corruption and generate revenue) will always go against what you swore to uphold and be a mindless drone for government.

[grunder20]

Good thing cops are there on the help.

[fatguyonthc]

@AK94ME Didn't the Supreme Court change it so they can't do that anymore?

[IndiaSergeant]

Just bring donuts next time, they won't even see you.

[ashkaji]

Its funny that they'll spend this kinda money on pointless and unconstitutional stops, but then obama will cry broke and make idle threats to cut SS. These guys are clowns.