Posted on 07/24/2017 9:55:27 PM PDT by BackRoads775
ell Middle School teacher Shane Parmely was detained for over an hour by Border Patrol agents at a checkpoint in New Mexico because she refused to say whether she was a U.S. citizen.
Parmely’s family helped her film the incident, which she posted Friday evening on her Facebook account in several segments that were widely shared. Parmely told Border Patrol agents that she believed she did not have to answer their questions. One agent showed her a card listing immigration law and a Supreme Court case decision that give Border Patrol agents authority to operate checkpoints within 100 miles of the border and to ask questions about citizenship without warrants.
“Citizens?” an agent asked her as she drove up to the checkpoint.
“Are we crossing a border?” Parmely responded.
“No. Are you United States citizens?” he repeated.
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Drama queen stunt. She’ll be Princess of the Teachers’ Lounge for a week.
Good.
BP can get their ass down to the border. These internal checkpoints are not only an atrocity - they’re a joke. There’s warnings miles ahead, flashing signs, extreme illumination. Yeah. The illegals will wander right into it.
The checkpoints are simply a display of border security theater, and being a dual citizen I answer their questions, but have been detained for a short period of time.
I don’t like the idea of being asked for my papers. The govt should just do its job and secure the border.
She was right to refuse, but she did so for the wrong reason. American citizens should not have to “prove” they have a right to be in the country. The BP needs to have a better process for identifying illegals, and that is best done down at the border. Just telling the BP Officers you “are a citizen” without any proof of same is BS.
You mean, just shoot anybody trying to cross? I don't get you.
“I don’t like the idea of being asked for my papers. The govt should just do its job and secure the border.”
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Then you don’t like the idea of illegal aliens being asked for their “papers”.
Brilliant....absolutely brilliant.
This is like the immigration checkpoint on i5 near camp pendleton?
If so, the San Onofre checkpoint is 67 miles from the border. It sits just like a truck scale on the major interstates. It was manned most of the time during the early 80’s then tapered off during the 90’s and was virtually non-existent up to 2007, my last year in Oceanside.
It’s mainly designed to catch mules hauling illegals but I understand some of the slower illegals do get caught here from time to time.
This reminds me of that preacher who got his window busted out for refusing to answer questions.
We were asked that same question sixty years ago when we came back from visiting Juarez.
We’ve been asked it every time we came back over the years.
I say Lock her up!
They are required to ask...even if they see you so often they know you.
When I lived in El Paso I’d go to lunch a lot in Juarez, I’d just walk across the bridge and then walk back.
The same guys would ask, “Are you an American citizen” and I’d say “Si” lol
Then they would ask “Anything to declare” and I’d say “Only my brilliance” (Not my line it’s what Oscar Wilde said when first going through US customs)
This is not about crossing the border.
This is not about crossing the border.
I’ve seen illegals pulled off charter buses at an internal checkpoint. Wouldn’t be surprised if others are caught hidden in trucks or the like.
I know, I used to say the same thing to the guys 50 miles in when going through the highway checkpoint...they were also used to me.
I certainly do not look Mexican :-)
I doubt they caught many illegals that way since there were side roads that avoided the checkpoints.
What a boring job theirs must have been.
Here is a video I made in Juarez when they had the military on the street due to narco violence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFNM4VM236E
I bet those bastard ICE agents have the nerve to ask those folks found baking in the semi in the San Antonio Walmart. They should refuse to show their papers and videotape the interaction — that will show them. /sarc
Sometimes the lack of common sense among some FReepers astounds me.
It appeared other illegals or "helpers" would go ahead, and radio back if the CP was operating or down. Sometimes it appeared to go hot unexpectedly to the approaching illegals.
You would see cars suddenly pulling off the road and passengers leaping out into the brush of Camp Pendleton.
There was a lot just north of the CP buildings usually full of various vehicles, I guessed were confiscated from nabbed druggies or illegals.
You just reminded me, there were other checkpoints to. There was the agriculture check point going into and out of California/Arizona border. We got stopped we were asked if we were carrying any farm produce then sent on our way.
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