There was a time on FR when this would have been the first thing posted on a thread about check points.
Yup. People have been conditioned to accept this illegal intrusion because the government has failed in its duty to police our borders. It has gotten to the point where even "conservatives" don't see it.
The government already knows where most of these illegals are. The IRS alone has enough information to allow us to round up millions of them, and thus trigger millions more to self-deport. However, we are instead asked to accept the trappings of a police state because it conditions people to accept the power the state holds over them.