[Theophilus]

However, he is, by all accounts, crossing the border. Why, otherwise, is he at a “checkpoint” at the border?

I have never been across any of our borders. Yet when I was in New Mexico I got stopped at a checkpoint more than 80 miles from the border.

The Pastor was stopped at an internal checkpoint and not at the border.

[mark3681]

Thanks to all that corrected me on this.

If in fact he was stopped at an internal checkpoint I stand corrected.
I believe, however, that the supreme court found that it was not an infringement of one’s constitutional rights to have your vehicle searched at one of these checkpoints, so long as it is border patrol searching for illegals or drugs.
That said, I don’t agree with their finding.