I actually agree with this woman.
This is like the police stopping every car on the high-way. There has to be some probable cause. They cannot simply ask everyone for ID.
May I see your passport please...is this YOUR bar of soap?
I’m with you. Allowing the Border Patrol to do blanket and warrantless searches and ID stops invites OTHER police agencies to start doing the same thing and they already do enough of it.
Secure the border, I agree.
But if I’m not at the border then leave me the hell alone.
Pretty sure DHS and TSA can do it already. Correct me as needed.
This is like the police stopping every car on the high-way. There has to be some probable cause. They cannot simply ask everyone for ID.
Have you ever driven out of San Diego?
About 30 miles north the border patrol has a checkpoint with little booth on each lane. You must slow down and they look into each car before waving you through.
The Supreme Court ruled this is legal many years ago.
There are only a few roads out of San Diego and I understand they put up check points on every one of them, but the one on Interstate 5 is the biggest.
This is like the police stopping every car on the high-way.
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Depending upon where you are this is already being done.
Yep, me too. There must be probable cause here in the good old US of A.
Concur.
No LE authority can do this. We don’t ask for papers here.
In a car, they can ask for your driver’s license.
On foot, they can ask to see ID, but you don’t have to provide it.
You can also ask why you’re being detained. You can also ask if you are under arrest. If they don’t answer, you can ask again until you get an answer.
If you have a phone, you can then say that at this point I’d like to contact my attorney. They can’t stop you, and it allows you to then take your phone out. If you think you are being stopped, having your phone in your hand is best, because reaching for it can be interpreted as reaching for a gun.
I forget how Murphy stops work, but reaching for your phone might trigger it.
If you have your phone in your hand, start recording the encounter for your own protection. It’s ‘he said, she said’, and the court is going to side with the officer, even if they are lying (which happened to me, and was refuted by the video evidence).
If the police lie in their testimony, nothing happens by the way. Nothing.
This only works if you are stopped while not being in a car. In a car, you have to produce your license and registration upon request.
If you are stopped at a sobriety checkpoint, what a mess. Best to just call your attorney while you are in line waiting. Completely unconstitutional, and yet many counties still do it.
TSA-Airport--Every person
dito! If it had been TSA they would have detained her for a cavity check.
These “agricultural inspection” stations have been nothing but unconstitutional search points for drugs for decades... if they don’t see anything but suspect you’re transporting you can expect to get pulled over down the road for a taillight or crossing the yellow line... guaranteed.