I am not talking about the checkpoints directly at the border, I am talking about checkpoints 100’s of miles east of the border on all the main highways right before you get to the nearest large cities east of the border.
we were amazed when we vacationed in that area....we were on our way back to attend a wedding in Colorado.....somewhere, many miles north and east of wherever we had even come close to the border, there was a border patrol blockage (permanent) on a multilane highway....we went through the goofey procedure while tractor/trailers proceeded through, at a reduced speed of course, in an adjacent lane.....I thought of mentioning to the agent that I had taken all the drugs out of my car at the last rest stop and placed them on the deck of the transport carrier next to me, but I refrained from doing so...also, I looked across a field and could SEE a frontage road running parallel to the highway..........now I'm not a drug smuggler, but even I could have figured out that the frontage road was a possibly better place to transport my stash that the highway with a border stop....I did, however, point out to the humourless agent that I thought that this entire fiasco was a gigantic waste of time (mine) and money (also mine)