Just as a heads up to those berating this lady for making a fuss/recording the encounter, there is a sizable segment of the American population that never goes within 400 miles of the southern border. For myself, I was not aware that this was a thing until seeing this article, watching that video. The ability to…

I had something similarish happen to me in Maine. I was on a road trip with my friend, and we were stopped by US boarder protection on our way INTO Canada. We were pulled aside and searched for about 2 hours because I asked them why they were doing Canada’s job of vetting immigrants. We are both white, male, my friend…

Whats Latinx?

Really? Latinx? Latin American too long that we needed a gender neutral word created rather than just dropping the vowel to Latin?

Oh man. When she reaches into the back of car at the 1:00 mark. If she wasn’t a white woman, you already know she’d be dead.

Oh, yeah, I remember reading something about that. Let’s see if I can find it right here. . .

She exercised her rights... quit bitching.

This stop north of Las Cruces on I-25 has been there for as long as I can remember. I-25 is a frequently used corridor for drug and human traffickers coming up from Juarez, and they put this checkpoint in that particular spot because there’s no way to get around it once your north of Las Cruces on your way to…

The point is, she shouldn’t have to produce her papers to prove she’s allowed to travel within the USA. She wasn’t abusive to the officers. They were doing their job, but was insisting that their orders were immoral. She’s allowed that right.

[Deleted] I thought she was pulled over an a non-checkpoint. At checkpoints, they ask this of everyone. You can’t drive in central or southern Arizona or New Mexico without encountering a checkpoint.

She should have just answered with a “Si”.

These border patrol guys are clearly scumbags, but I always wonder in these situations if the righteous indignation is really worth it. All I can say is thank goodness she’s white.

It’s sort of a fact of life that you get used to around here

“invariably white, because they can”

She’s lucky they did not hold her for 24 hours

How exactly do you prove your a citizen? A driver’s license will do it?

I’m surprised that this is new to anyone that lives in San Diego. I’ve been through the check point on the 94 near Jamul a bunch of times

I like to think he actually didn’t want to seem racist, like a TSA agent “randomly selecting” an old lady instead of the brown guy everyone is side eying, and it backfired by becoming a Seinfeld episode.

They have been doing this for decades. I was stopped 10 miles from the Mexican border near San Diego in the 90s and everyone in the car was forced to produce IDs and questioned about their immigration status.