Published: Jun 06, 2022. If you are stopped, detained, or harassed by Border Patrol, try to get the agent(s) name, number, and any other identifyinginformation. Agents should always be able to explain the reason for a stop to the driver. See, for example, 8 U.S.C. With drivers backed up in line for an immigration status check, agents patrolled between the lanes with drug-sniffing dogs, according to Woodstock police Chief Ryan Oleson, whose officers were. Support the Public Media you love! Three ACLU chapters filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday on behalf of Jesse Drewniak, a New Hampshire man cited for a minor drug offense after being stopped at a checkpoint in Woodstock, NH on Interstate 93 approximately 90 miles from the Canadian border. Visit CBP's Southwest Border Migration page for demographic information regarding apprehensions and inadmissibles on the southwest border and the Assaults and Use of Force page for data on assaults on agents and officers, and uses of force by CBP personnel. That is one good doggy he or she hit the jackpot, as agents discovered weapons, drugs, and two suspects (one with active warrants and not for your garden-variety offenses). With that decision, the Supreme Court added to decades of precedents that have allowed the Border Patrol to barely abide by the Constitution, especially its 4th Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. On the basis of a single factor of suspicion they can pull someone over for more thorough questioning. There are four general types of checkpoints you might encounter: DUI checkpoints, U.S. border checkpoints, drug checkpoints, and TSA checkpoints. Reece Jones is a professor of geography and environment at the University of Hawai i and the author of Nobody is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States.. CBPs own policy requires that searches be conducted in a manner that is safe, secure, humane, dignified and professional.. A recent Supreme Court decision, Egbert vs. Boule, underlined those powers. And it essentially means the case is finished, said Gabriel Nizetic, who was representing the state.