Border Patrol, on I-10, east of El Paso, both times.
First time, I was driving a new car I bought in NM - a 2005 Mustang GT Convertable, that I got for $15k less than I could have in Virginia. Brand new. Man, I loved that car. When I got it home, first thing my wife did, was run out and slap my daughter’s baby seat in it.
Peeing on her tree, she was.
Second time, I was tired of flying - so I took the old MPV (Junker) to NM. Hey, it got better milage than the mustang!
Sure as heck, random border patrol stop on I-10, in the middle of texas.
“Ihre papieren, Bitte!”
Good thing I already speak German.
There were border patrol check points in New England up until about 2008, I had been stopped many times, likely about 14 or 15 in all. This was about 230 miles south of the Canada/US border on I 91 South, always at the same rest stop , where they waived us off the highway into it, and checked everyone in 4 lanes of traffic , then back out onto the Highway. At other times the checks were organized right on the Interstate itself.Always Border Patrol.
They asked for ID ( Drivers Licence) and passports if they were not US citizens.. They were stopping everyone at those checkpoints, everybody had to go through them.
Its as if they wanted to double check people they had already let into the country.
I did not resent these border patrol checks under Bush. However, these TSA freaks are civilians who do not have to take an oath to uphold the constitution. I would not like stopping for these TSA freaks. They are Obama’s “brown shirts” IMHO. Watch them in the future to see their evolution in use of firearms training , crowd control, and mass transport of FEMA prisoners, especially via rail. I do not put it beyond Obama at all to seek out a “final solution” to his definition of “racial and ethnic conflict.”
Good Read ( I keep publishing it):
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html