We were pretty far East of El Paso Texas (50 miles?) on I-10 when we hit this roadblock. They made it seem like it was a truck weigh station but all cars were stopped. An officer came up to the window and looked in our car - back and front seats. She asked if we were U.S. Citizens. We said yes and they let us through. What if we had accents? Scary.
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I drove through there with my son last year. It is an eerie feeling being systematically stopped by law enforcement on a U.S. Interstate highway. It is not a border crossing - it is an east-west highway in Texas. After a couple of conversational inquiries, we passed the "American" test and were waved on. How this is legal, I am not sure. The ACLU most have no presence in Texas.
I love that they are doing this. It makes me feel better about our President. If you are legal, you have nothing to worry about.
If you are Hispanic and an American Citizen and are detained...maybe you wouldn't be so happy about it. I can just picture them stopping Tomas Regalado and perhaps pulling him out of the car.
I guess the government should just pretend that the millions of illegal aliens in that area are Mexicans. More politically correct BS.
They're just doing their job-- cracking down on illegals.
I remember passing through a checkpoint like that 20 years ago on I-10. This is nothing new. I faced a bunch of questions one of which was: "Where are you from?" Which I took to mean "where were you born." This was different from "where do you live" which is the question the officer thought he asked. Correcting the misunderstanding took a few minutes, and he was visibly annoyed with me. I guess that was par for the course, as I was also annoyed with him for keeping me far longer than other drivers were being kept.
I passed through that station back in 1996. The agents said Hello to us and I said Hello back to them. After 5 minutes of them and their K9's going around the cars and the K9's reacting to a covered pick up truck that turned up to be hiding illegals in the covered part of the truck, the agents said to the rest of us have a good evening and let us go. I'm a Hispanic and I've never felt unconfortable or profiled at all during that incident.
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