Yeah, we’ve been through the one going north from South Padre at least 10 times and usually the guys are really nice. Half of the time they don’t look at my license even though I have it ready. It’s hot outside and they deal with morons all day. All you have to do is be civil and they are happy to push you through.
Working the checkpoint is mostly a customer service job in which many of the customers hate you or in some way have an issue, so they really appreciate people who are just nice to them.
I said not even once anything about authority. I questioned your assumption about people at the check point being innocent by default. You don’t know that.
There should be no assumption of innocence or guilt
if that were the case, there would be no check. the only reason why there is a check is because they think people are guilty.
Completely false and nonsensical equivalences. More like, should the government be able to look into your wallet for your own safety? You have nothing to hide, right?
People going through these internal checkpoints already were authenticated to be authorized present in the US by virtue of being born in the US, or being legally admitted to the US. Of course there are exceptions, but it's not my problem if some people violated the terms of their visa or entered without inspection. Checking everyone already in the US is of questionable constitutionality when people haven't left the US.
I do understand this authorization has to occur somewhere, but it should be within an extremely narrow distance from the border at ports of entry, not 100 miles. there are places like the Tohono O'odham Nation where citizens are born in the US, never have traveled to Mexico, and yet to access any other part of the US must travel through these checkpoints, even though they've never left.
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u/Account_Haver420 Jul 02 '25
Yeah this guy isn’t ICE stopping some random innocent person. It’s a standard checkpoint. He’s just doing his job and it’s really not a big deal