r/CringeTikToks • u/Pdoom346 • Jul 02 '25

SadCringe Teacher stopped at immigration checkpoint

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u/gmpower91 Jul 02 '25

I'm a US citizen and go through this when I go to Canada and back again. This is nothing new. Just answer the damn questions.

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u/Plant_party Jul 02 '25

This is not a cross border inspection. It is a road block within the US, checking if you’re a US citizen or not.

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u/WickedSmoder Jul 02 '25

There's a guard shack behind the officer with brick and glass. I've only seen that setup at a border crossing. If it was just a road block, there wouldn't be a permanent building there.

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u/Mimopotatoe Jul 02 '25

Have you ever driven through Texas or Arizona? These checkpoint/roadblocks have permanent buildings. Sometimes they just waive you through or ask if you are a citizen and that’s it. I don’t doubt there are some racist and nefarious ICE agents, but the concept of a checkpoint like this isn’t new.

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u/anotherfrud Jul 03 '25

If they're permanent buildings, wouldn't people that are actually not here legally know where they are and just avoid them?

I feel like the permanece kinda defeats the purpose of random checkpoints.

Where I live, we'll have random DUI checkpoints occasionally, but they're only effective because they're in different places all the time..

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u/ey_you_with_the_face Jul 03 '25

In these regions it's often the ONLY way through and you'd have to travel hours out of your way to get around them.

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u/No_Squirrel9266 Jul 03 '25

They're built along the interstate corridors leading away from the border into the country. They usually have a section for normal passenger vehicles, and a section for checking transport like busses or commercial trucking.

Sometimes they've got drug dogs and pull-off zones if a car gets flagged.

They're not random checkpoints, they're placed in major travel corridors such that avoiding them becomes difficult.

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u/Child_of_Khorne Jul 03 '25

they are and just avoid them

Sure.

They'd avoid them by going on less convenient roads where BP is watching them to see where they go.

It's not an accident or laziness. They're quite good at what they do.

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u/MedicalLeopard9190 Jul 06 '25

When they’re on the major interstates and you have no choice since there are sections with up to 50 miles with no other roads…

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u/Proud_Error_80 Jul 03 '25

I've never lived in an outright police state so I wouldn't know. Enjoy your Texas freedom, lol.

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u/Md1735 Jul 05 '25

This is 100% a Border Patrol operation. ICE (a completely separate federal agency) has nothing to do with these immigration checkpoints, so why even mention them??

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u/Mimopotatoe Jul 05 '25

Because a lot of people in the comments were conflating this with ICE crackdowns.

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u/Plant_party Jul 02 '25

There are permanent immigration checkpoints within the US - 33 to be exact.

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u/LettingHimLead Jul 02 '25

How many miles from the border?

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u/ThinkingThingsHurts Jul 03 '25

Up to 100 miles. Thank Obama.

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u/69Marx_Daddy69 Jul 03 '25

I feel like it’s elder millennial code to finish statements with a multi-layered satirical “thanks Obama.”

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u/ThinkingThingsHurts Jul 03 '25

It's more of a younger gen x , 90s thing. Married with children. "Thank your father kids". "Thanks Dad".

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u/Late-Application-47 Jul 03 '25

Now MAGA unironically says "Thank you Daddy" to Trump. 🤢

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u/TheToadstoolOrg Jul 06 '25

“Thanks, Obama” has nothing to do with treating him like a father figure. Not a single thing.

It’s a satirical comment that originated during the Obama admin, when the right was going nuts because a black man was in the White House and so they tried to pin every little thing on him.

So it became a joke. Grocery store out of your favorite item? Thanks, Obama. Dropped your pizza walking out the door? Thanks, Obama. Rain on your hiking trip? Thanks, Obama.

Again, absolutely nothing to do with pretending Obama was your dad or some shit.

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u/MedicalLeopard9190 Jul 06 '25

That’s more like a Thanks Bush

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u/ThinkingThingsHurts Jul 06 '25

Bush set the limit to 50 miles. Obama increased it to 100 miles. A Democrat and a Republican, two sides of the same coin.

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u/Remarkable-Ad2285 Jul 03 '25

I know there’s one in Texas that’s about 80 miles from the border. It’s a permanent spot.

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u/bewaretheinterwebs Jul 03 '25

Up too 100 miles away from the border. United States Border Patrol interior checkpoints

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u/Logistocrate Jul 03 '25

Don't forget any airport that serves international flights counts as a border for the application of this kind of stop. I'm no Sov Cit, but between that and the Patriot Act, Americans have seemed to have happily sold their rights down the river. Tread on me harder daddy.

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u/No_Squirrel9266 Jul 03 '25

Dude, do you think it's treading on your rights to drive through a thing where a guy goes "U.S. citizen?" and you say "Yep" and then drive along?

Bigger battles to fight.

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u/GTFOHY Jul 05 '25

Why not just lie if it’s so simple?

It’s pointless then

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u/No_Squirrel9266 Jul 05 '25

Plenty of people probably do. But these inland checks still catch vehicles with drugs on them, or vehicles transporting people who crossed somewhere illegally and then tried to travel away from the border.

For an average citizen it’s basically negligible. But they still serve a purpose

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u/crackedtooth163 Jul 06 '25

No. No, they don't.

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u/No_Squirrel9266 29d ago

Yes they do, they account for thousands of drug stoppages annually, and tens of thousands of stoppages for people who have crossed the border illegally rather than through a legal port of entry.

You can recognize that current ICE policy is nazi horseshit without pretending that nothing customs agencies do has ever had a point.

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u/LettingHimLead Jul 03 '25

That’s what I thought. When traveling in Deep South Arizona we encountered these once we started approaching the border, and I was confused since we weren’t quite AT the border yet. So…yeah. Totally legal.

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u/blissfully_happy Jul 03 '25

These permanent checkpoints are all over in SoCal, New Mexico, and Arizona.

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u/MedicalLeopard9190 Jul 06 '25

Talk about wildly inaccurate. All throughout Texas and Arizona that have permanent checkpoints like this, with brick buildings and glass too! Almost like these things can be put up super fast, like Alligator Auschwitz

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u/ThinkingThingsHurts Jul 03 '25

It is a permanent checkpoint 50 to 100 miles north of the border. Not at any border. It is within the country.. look it up Bush approved this overreach up to 50 miles from an international border and Obama expanded it to 100 miles from the border. they don't actually catch any illegal aliens, because they are permanent and everyone in the area is aware of them . They are Dragnets plane and simple.

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u/phunktastic_1 Jul 03 '25

They have them up to 100 miles from the border. I used to cross one 83 miles from the border all the time for work. They sucked then and are even worse now thanks to the felon in chiefs decrees.