Including for that reason the 100 mile radius around Storm Lake, IA.

Gotta protect the IBP plants from terror attack or there will be no pulled pork sammiches.

Excuse me but "DHS owns 100 miles into the country?" Are you frigging kidding? Who did they buy it from? Not me.

but read post number #22

There are three ways to get to Tucson fro here, all have checkpoints and with dogs.
Apparently, the dogs can sniff out an illegal immigrant.
Once, a dog alerted on a friend's gas tank. The agents shoved my friend into the back of a car, then drove him and his truck about 60 miles to be x-rayed. Nothing was found, and he was released hours later with 120 miles of gas used.

The police have used that for years to go around the law and search without probable cause. What are you going to do? Put the dog on the stand to testify?

And several have been found to respond to cues from their handlers.

Search dogs are bullshit. If you have drugs, they will find them. If you don't, they will still the the police the out they need to trash your car.

is an old trick. Makes the handler look good even if the dog bats 50%.

I believe the SC has already ruled that it was ok for police to bring dogs to your front door for a sniff. In your car you are even more open for a dog sniff.

The Supreme Court has ruled that a drug dog sniff of a car is NOT a search under the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. Mind-boggling, but there it is. Ditto for drug dog searches of packages at shipping companies.

The hope is that the high court will set a higher standard for a home search. A man's home is his castle, you know. They disallowed heat signature scans of homes.

Just last week. Check the SCOTUS website. As long as the dog has been "certified" it's not an illegal search, even if there ate no drugs or the dog is no good at it.

only been x-rayed at columbus/palomas - will never cross there again

I don't like it, but there it is.

That's a pretty expansive definition of the border, but there it is.

It appears they actually don't have much power. And they didn't break into the vehicles. Probably because they know they can't - knowingly violating someones civil rights will void their qualified immunity from lawsuits.

cooperate, thereby waiving their rights. Those two groups are who they prey on.

I do believe I have the same Constitutional rights as every other citizen.

without probable cause. Notice that when challenged, they all let the person go without any real reason to believe the person stopped is an alien. That's the law. Most people don't know that.

And they can't arrest you for disobeying a lawful order because they can't lawfully order a search without probable cause. If they did, they would lose their qualified immunity and they could be personally sued in court.

That said, they can put on quite a show of authority that makes most people buckle under.

at interior check-points. Just don't try this at the Border or at the airport, kids. You have no constitutional right to fly or to be admitted to the US without inspection.

As Nancy Reagan told us, about interior BCBP checkpoints and ICE workplace inspections, Just say No.

the supreme court ruled 7-2 back in 1977 that it is legal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Martinez-Fuerte

One can't be arrested or detained in a motor vehicle w/out probable cause at immigration checkpoints. Sobriety check points, however, do not have the same probable cause requirements.

Never claimed the checkpoints were illegal under current 4th Amendment doctrine.

Famous for searching band buses. They have arrested willie nelson, snoop dog, and many others.

It's good for catching a lot of small-time pot-smokers traveling east-west through the US. Not so good at actually interdicting big drug loads coming across the border.

And they don't really know what to do.

Kind of like the Justice Department confronted with legal marijuana in Washington and Colorado.

1) We are spending way more on this border patrol bullshit than all of the FBI efforts. In what universe does that make any sense?

2) Border crossings have been near net zero to NEGATIVE in recent years. We don't even have a real problem at the border.

3) This ain't the border.

Republicans are all about cutting wasteful government spending. Here's a great place to start.

like the 21st Century version of Nazi Germany.

The people filming these stops are a lot more brave then I would be.

the sequestration cutting down on the number of these fools will be the upshot of the sequestration.

I didn't appreciate being asked where I was from or where I was going like I was doing something wrong. I gave them my and my family's IDs to check and the rest was none of their fucking business.

....especially when Border Patrol questions are taking place quite a few miles from the border and they have no evidence you even crossed the border.

This kind of crap is bullshit and is not protecting anyone.

This is what we get along with NO thorough investigation. I HOPE the sequester kills these Nazi checkpoints.