Borderline disorders: checkpoint nation.

AuthorTuccille, J.D.
PositionCitings - Brief article

WAITING IN a line of cars to be questioned by uniformed men is an all-too-familiar experience to people who live and work around the nation's perimeter. Drivers within 100 miles of the border--what the American Civil Liberties Union calls the "Constitution-free zone," where special rules approved by the courts prevail--are frequently stopped at Border Patrol checkpoints where they risk searches and must assure officials of the legality of their presence in the country. As aggravating as these experiences are for travelers, they're worse for people who are stopped every time they leave their homes--people like the residents of Arivaca, Arizona, who are now documenting abuses by federal officials and insisting that the checkpoint outside their town be removed.

A picture of a school bus at the Arivaca Border Patrol roadblock is prominendy featured on the End Border Patrol Checkpoints Facebook page. Leesa Jacobson, one of the...

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