Drama queen stunt. She’ll be Princess of the Teachers’ Lounge for a week.
Good.
BP can get their ass down to the border. These internal checkpoints are not only an atrocity - they’re a joke. There’s warnings miles ahead, flashing signs, extreme illumination. Yeah. The illegals will wander right into it.
The checkpoints are simply a display of border security theater, and being a dual citizen I answer their questions, but have been detained for a short period of time.
I don’t like the idea of being asked for my papers. The govt should just do its job and secure the border.
She was right to refuse, but she did so for the wrong reason. American citizens should not have to “prove” they have a right to be in the country. The BP needs to have a better process for identifying illegals, and that is best done down at the border. Just telling the BP Officers you “are a citizen” without any proof of same is BS.
This is like the immigration checkpoint on i5 near camp pendleton?
If so, the San Onofre checkpoint is 67 miles from the border. It sits just like a truck scale on the major interstates. It was manned most of the time during the early 80’s then tapered off during the 90’s and was virtually non-existent up to 2007, my last year in Oceanside.
It’s mainly designed to catch mules hauling illegals but I understand some of the slower illegals do get caught here from time to time.
This reminds me of that preacher who got his window busted out for refusing to answer questions.
We were asked that same question sixty years ago when we came back from visiting Juarez.
We’ve been asked it every time we came back over the years.
I say Lock her up!
They are required to ask...even if they see you so often they know you.
When I lived in El Paso I’d go to lunch a lot in Juarez, I’d just walk across the bridge and then walk back.
The same guys would ask, “Are you an American citizen” and I’d say “Si” lol
Then they would ask “Anything to declare” and I’d say “Only my brilliance” (Not my line it’s what Oscar Wilde said when first going through US customs)
Fire her
The racist Border Patrol stopped a white woman and asked if she was a citizen of the US.
Better yet, throw her in the Taco wagon with some gang members for transport.
Too bad they did not jail her until proof could be established, and then fine her for the effort to do so.
Well, I understand people not liking being asked for “papers” just out of the blue but, come on. Use some common sense.
This is not like Nazi Germany and you know it. You know what they are trying to accomplish. You realize how close you are to the border and how many illegals stream into the country every day. Just show them your license or whatever and go on down the road. This is not a hill to die on.
Hopefully they will have a many feet tall assistant at the border soon. And no I’m not some cop asskisser. This is a very unusual situation. Help them do their job - a job you likely wouldn’t want to have.
I’ve got to side with the teacher on this one. Asking citizenship when crossing the border? Fine, I don’t have any problems with that at all. But stopping and asking miles from the border isn’t fine. That smacks of a “show me your papers” totalitarian regime.
Wherein it regards the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the 5th Amendment:
...nor be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.
Questions can be asked, no one is required to answer them.
Racist? How is citizenship racist? She wanted the adulation of her radical friends.
These checkpoints are nothing new...been around for over 40+ and longer years.