Anyone who spends any time travelling the southwest knows that there are constantly “check points” on the major highways. We are in Yuma,AZ and run into ICE check points in almost every direction. I-10 down by the border in Texas is littered with them.
This is indeed the true irony of all this. We’ve sat in plenty of long lines just to get waived through, or quickly asked if we are citizens. No big deal, it’s just part of the landscape. Annoying but understandable and an inconvenience we are willing to endure if it means secure borders. What is infuiating is that the borders ARE NOT secure and these check points are a waist of time and money (and my over priced deisel).
So I have no sympathy for anyone who is “inconvenieced” by a lawful request for “paperzzzzz”.
You are 100% correct. You could find 100 illegal aliens in an hour driving around Boston, but the ICE roadblock in the middle of Vermont apparently has only caught around 500 illegal aliens in all of the years it has been in operation. A roadblock near the Mexican border may make sense, but how many Canadians are trying to sneak into the United States?
What is really infuriating is the fake outrage of the current administration. They call Arizona's wholly legitimate desire the check immigration status of people who are in contact with the police discriminatory, but they have no problem subjecting everyone to a more arbitrary and discriminatory road block themselves.
I'm all for securing the border, and roadblocks near known smuggling and illegal entry points may be justified, but roadblocks that just waste the time of both the citizens and the ICE staff are a poor policy decision.
Again, I’m sorry I hate to be pesky, but, this drives me nuts, those checkpoints are CBP Border Patrol. Some might think this is semantics but ICE and CBP, especially Border Patrol have completely different missions.