Cato Institute
Checkpoint America: Monitoring The Constitution-Free Zone is a new Cato project designed to map Department of Homeland Security Custom and Border Protection (CBP) internal checkpoints and provide the public with information on their operations, as well as the chance to help improve our information on and understanding of activities at these checkpoints.
Simply stated, Americans living in or traveling through the so-called “border zone†can be subjected to motor vehicle stops and constitutionally dubious searches at internal checkpoints run by the CBP. Some of these checkpoints are located as much as 100 miles inside the country, and reports of CBP agent abuses of citizens at such checkpoints appear frequently in the press.
If you conduct a YouTube search utilizing the phrase “checkpoint refusal videos,†you will get thousands of hits-and you could easily spend days watching them. One Arizona man has created Roadblock Revelations, a website dedicated to exposing CBP abuses of motorists (the website operator has to travel through a CBP checkpoint daily in order to get to and from work). A ReasonTV piece documented the case of one American citizen who, upon refusing to disclose his citizenship at the Laredo, Texas checkpoint, was detained by CBP without charge for 19 days (the case was the subject of litigation). In some cases, CBP agents have used violence to remove motorists from their vehicles when they decline to answer questions after asserting their rights.
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https://www.cato.org/checkpoint-america
