[cripplecreek]

Is this city cops doing this and does state law allow it? As far as I can tell, Texas is one of the states that doesn't allow suspicionless checkpoints. (I don't know how much leeway Texas cities have within Texas law)

[peeps36]

We have DWI check points in CT. They are announced in the newspaper a few days ahead of time. The announcement usually gives the general area and the days the roadblock will happen. I can't think of any roadblocks that weren't publicized beforehand.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Trust me Texas does allow suspicionless checkpoints. There are all sorts of checkpoints 100’s of miles from the border on all the main highways.

[Axenolith]

Loads of legal info and research...

http://section520.org/1.html

[Boogieman]

State law shouldn't have anything to do with it, because this is a straight 4th Amendment issue, which restricts the states as much as it does the Federal government. I realize the courts disagree, but they're wrong on this one.

[octex]

I live in the mid-cities area between Dallas and Ft. Worth. In the late ‘80s I drove to work on a residential, 2-lane road in Euless part of the way. One morning about 7am I encountered a checkpoint and had to show my I.D.

There was a lot of residential house construction happening in the area and they were checking for illegals who might be working the jobs, as residents had reported seeing illegals
sneaking through their yards in early morning hours. One such resident was a coworker in my dept.

A Border Patrol detention center was only about a half mile away in an industrial district. Every Friday afternoon on the way home, I would see a large Border Patrol bus from the detention center pull onto the highway in front of me and head West. The buses were almost always full of illegals and were headed for El Paso, where they would be sent back to Mexico.