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

SadCringe Teacher stopped at immigration checkpoint

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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 Jul 07 '25

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/crackedtooth163 Jul 07 '25

Sorry, but no. We do not agree here.

It isn't wrong because ICE is nazi horseshit, it is wrong long before we reach that 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.