johnbrownfunclubofficial:

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johnbrownfunclubofficial:

did you know that people living near the US-Mexico border on the US side regularly have to go through US Border Patrol checkpoints?

yeah that’s fine and normal

yeah and it’s creepy Nazi shit

no but that’s not a big deal

no wtf that’s creepy Nazi shit

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Let me clarify something. I don’t mean crossing the US-Mexico border. I don’t even mean heading north, away from a border town. I mean between two cities or towns, dozens or hundreds of miles away from border crossings.

Example: the city of Las Cruces is 42 miles north of the nearest border crossing. The city of Deming is 32 miles north of the nearest border crossing. These are two different border crossings. There is no reason to pass between Las Cruces and Deming if smuggling goods from Mexico into the US. There is a US Border Patrol checkpoint in the westbound lane on Interstate 10 between Deming and Las Cruces. This checkpoint serves no function but to give the US federal government a site at which they can harass immigrants – including legal immigrants with permanent visas – and US citizens who live in the area. You may face federal drug and smuggling charges if you bring legally purchased marijuana from a dispensary in Las Cruces to Deming. You may face smuggling charges if you move a locally legal substance from one part of the US to another, parts of the US in the same State, parts of the US that do not have any legal or real necessity for a border checkpoint between them.

If this is a normal and reasonable thing to you, there is something wrong with you and i do not trust you.

Sarita is 50 miles from the TX-MX border and just south of it is a check point. That is the only road you can take in and out of the Valley. It’s not in town, it’s literally by itself. Miles of scraggy ass semi-desert landscape.

They pick these posts because they are close enough to a town for their agents to live and for supply access. But far away enough that no body is gonna see what they do.

At least the agents in-town in Brownsville were surrounded by people. Those fuckers up near Sarita had you in their claws.

It’s why i made the post. I travel between those two towns in the example i gave pretty regularly. I was thinking about it and it occurred to me to ask, do other people know about this shit or is it just an open secret us desert rats in the Southwest have?

I didn’t expect the post to blow up but something has crossed my mind these last few days, one more thing i need to clarify. It’s not just locals that this impacts. Tourists and other travelers who just happen to be passing through have to go through the major interstate checkpoints. Truckers have to go through the checkpoints. Millions of people whose vehicle and direction of travel is documented by the US federal government, no GPS tracking required.

For those of y'all who didn’t know about this, let me explain how this works for most folks most of the time. You are forced to exit the Interstate. big rig traffic will be directed to one checkpoint, all other vehicles to another. There will be dozens of cameras and possibly other surveillance equipment (I don’t know the specs of the spy machines that scan my car every few weeks) lined up next to the road, recording all vehicles passing through the single, slowed-down lane of traffic. You will approach the checkpoint itself, where there may be people with Geiger counters or drug dogs. There will be a folding sign that has two configurations, “stop” and “go.” If the sign says “go,” you pass through and speed back up to interstate speeds and that’s it. If it says “stop,” most times a bored Border Patrol agent will ask “US citizen?” If you pass his racial profiling, he’ll wave you through. If you don’t, you’ll be subject to further scrutiny. Sometimes, when the aforementioned drug dogs or Geiger counters are present, you will be stopped while the agents scan your car from the outside. If the drug dog smells something, you’ll be subject to further scrutiny. If the Geiger counters go off, I’m counting that as an extremely rare DHS win because why do you have unsecured radioactive material in your car?

In my experience, most Border Patrol Agents are either white men or 2nd or 3rd generation Mexican-American men. They are typically in their late 20s or early 30s. They are almost always very politically conservative if not outright fascist. They are often military veterans though not always and many of them have prior law enforcement experience. They are trained to expect shootouts or massive contraband/illegal immigrant seizures; because of this, when manning the checkpoints, they are usually either bored out of their minds, itching to demonstrate their authority, or both. If you stutter or otherwise make them think you’re acting suspiciously, well… Most people who have seen this post have seen the map of the 100-mile zone. Most people reading this reblog probably know how cops are. So take a guess what happens when the agents decide you’re suspicious. It can range from annoying to deadly.

Fuck DHS.