Stop and searches on I-10?
First time I heard of this, but I was warned several times that I-10 is having random stop and searches of drivers going between San Antonio and El Paso with either drug dogs, or actively ripping a ve...
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paulj wrote:
Has anyone had experience with an internal border patrol checkpoint other than established ones like the Sierra Blanca one?
The internal ones, Border Patrol, as far as I know, no longer exist.
The last interior Border Patrol checkpoint I knew of was at Miami, Oklahoma, closed quite some years ago.
Now this does not mean that another agency may not be leading at a checkpoint set up somewhere in the interior.
Those internal type checkpoints may be set up like the one I worked in Nebraska some years ago. It was actually being run by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. Late fall, and checking primarily for game violations coming into and across Nebraska on I-80 near North Platte, Nebraska. Game and Parks were the officers folks first met on the interstate, but many other types of violations, or possible at least, were sent into the rest area we used where Border Patrol and many other agencies were waiting to interview and investigate.
Those multi-agency checkpoints are probably the ones referred to here, and would be the only ones set up in the interior of the US.
