Border Patrol traffic stops stir public backlash, site monitoring
ARIVACA, Ariz. –For the past seven years, anyone driving out of this small town on either of the main roads north has had to pass through a "temporary" Border Patrol checkpoint. Agents also rove along the local roads, frequently stopping vehicles.
Over those years, many residents say they've gotten little response from the Border Patrol to complaints about harassment and abusive behavior by agents, about traffic delays and inconvenience. They've gotten no answer when they've asked how many undocumented migrants or loads of drugs either of the checkpoints flanking their town actually intercept.
So, in February, local residents and activists began to monitor the Border Patrol checkpoint on the road from Arivaca to Interstate 19, four hours a day, three to five days a week. And to date, they say, they have yet to see a migrant apprehended or person arrested for drugs or anything else.
Full: http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/politics/2014/06/07/border-patrol-backlash-monitoring/10117999/
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I did my tiny bit of civil disobedience the other day.
Arrived at checkpoint expecitng to be waved through (fat middle aged white woman in a middle class car) but the guy stopped me so I rolled my window down and did not say anything. He asked if I was traveling alone and I said yes. He tried to look in the back window but it is pretty dark so he asked if I would roll it down and I said "Why? I told you I was alone" he started to say it was too dark to see in, could I please roll it down and I said "No, I don't think so - can I leave now please?" He got a kind of surprised look on his face and then stepped back and said I could go.
Oh that wasn't the civil disobedience, either. I was actually returning from driving a migrant that I had sort of rescued back to the border. he wanted to go back after his 5 other companions had been nabbed. Probably not legal but I figured I wasn't taking into the interior of the US so ... 
