[yesthatjallen]

The description of what the CBP can and cannot do or ask motorists makes me wonder why we even have a CBP.

[marktwain]

When I came back from Central America (Panama), I thought I was coming back to a free country.

No more checkpoints, to be approached with fear and trepidation.

Once I got to Yuma, I immediately noticed the checkpoints.

This, I thought, in America?

[Lurker]

They should be working at the border not rousting people 20 miles away.

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[exDemMom]

it would place the agents where they would be far more effective at catching illegal crossers than President Trump’s proposed border wall.

I don't think anyone expects the border wall to catch illegal crossers. I expect it to funnel illegals into a smaller, more easily patrollable, area.

[GreenLanternCorps]

The border zone is 100 miles from the border or coastline.

It needs to be reduced.

[Proud_texan]

I've gone through the Texas one a couple of times and have been treated like a criminal every time. Woe was me the one time I tried to, very respectfully, push back. Not arrested or anything but they sure managed to delay me and make sure that I knew there were consequences for asking questions.

At the same time illegals stream across the border and get a bus ticket to where ever with a promise to show up in court two years later.

How these are legal is beyond me.

Land of the free my big white butt.

[Svartalfiar]

And of course, they have to add in a dig at Trump at the end... A wall doesn't 'catch' any illegal aliens, it prevents them from even easily getting in at all!

Ending the checkpoints and redeploying CBP agents closer to the problem would not only stop unconstitutional rights violations of innocent Americans, it would place the agents where they would be far more effective at catching illegal crossers than President Trump’s proposed border wall.