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Having been stopped and arrested at an illegal joint task force roadblock conducted by tribal police, U.S. Customs, and the Border Patrol several years earlier - merely for asking a few questions, I always made sure to carry a camera with me when traveling along this road.
After the 2002 arrest, I fought the charges in court where they were dismissed 'with prejudice'. I then sued the tribal police for malicious prosecution and civil rights violations in federal court. That case is currently in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
www.checkpointusa.org...
The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a division of the United States Department of Homeland Security, is permitted to search travelers and their belongings at the American border without probable cause or a warrant. These searches are therefore exempted from the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement. Pursuant to this authority, CBP may generally stop and search the property of any traveler entering or exiting the United States at random, or even based largely on ethnic profiles.
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United States v. Montoya de Hernandez, 473 U.S. 531, 538 (1985) ("travelers may be stopped [and searched] at . . . the border without individualized suspicion even if the stop [or search] is based largely on ethnicity[.]") (citing United States v. Martinez-Fuerte, 428 U.S. 543, 562-563(1976))
Originally posted by spines
reply to post by FiveStarCeleb
Know your rights. All of them!
Are you hear to plug your site and videos or are you going to adress the legitimate points being discussed in your thread?
I would think the issue of the border exception, and the question of the true legality of such checkpoints so far from the border, is an important one.
If you are going to encourage people on this board to know and assert their rights you have a responsibility to include all facets of the law discussed.
Originally posted by FiveStarCeleb
Are you hear to plug your site and videos or are you going to adress the legitimate points being discussed in your thread?
Are you adressing me?..
I Dont have a site..
And I dont think that anyone was being off target..