WATCH: US Border Patrol Checkpoints Foiled by Drivers Asserting Their Rights The Huffington Post
go to original March 4, 2013

Top DHS Checkpoint Refusals - Checkpoints (some would say illegal checkpoints) have been popping up quite frequently in the USA. As you see in this video, you DO NOT have to comply with their question's or demands. Don't forget, you have rights. (millsmost)

A group of drivers want you to know your rights.

As anyone familiar with the U.S.-Mexico border knows, the checkpoints don't start where the two countries meet. In fact, the Border Patrol can set up checkpoints within 100 miles of the border, where they stop drivers at random in search of undocumented immigrants. Snoop Dog found that out the hard way last year when he got busted for weed at a border checkpoint outside Sierra Blanca, Texas.

What you might not know is that you're not legally obligated to answer their questions, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, which has denounced the practice of setting up random immigration checkpoints along the border zone.

A few drivers decided to test the theory, filmed the results, and posted them on YouTube.

Read the whole story at The Huffington Post

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