Putting to rest the lie that internal Border Patrol checkpoints are primarily about stemming the flow of illegal border crossers (as if you could stop illegal border crossers 40 miles North of the border to begin with), the video below clearly shows that the Department of Homeland Security use so-called immigration checkpoints as a pretext to search for contraband.

As in previous videos , this August 21st checkpoint encounter took place near mile marker 146 on SR86 in Southern Arizona. SR86 is an East-West highway located over forty miles North of the border and never intersects the border at any point.

Consequently, there are no Ports of Entry located along this route. Why then would a 'Port of Entry' K9 team with Customs and Border Protection be operating a CBP detector dog at this internal immigration checkpoint?

The answer is obvious.

During the encounter, the stopping Border Patrol agent greets me by name. Further, the agent never asks my immigration status making it clear the scope of the stop had nothing to do with immigration. Additionally, other Border Patrol agents on the South side of the checkpoint yell out my name on several occasions (see the gray haired Border Patrol agent sitting down while waving and enjoying the festivities below):

While I'm being detained at primary by a Border Patrol agent who knows who I am, a K9 team is going to work on the passenger side of my vehicle sniffing for illegal contraband. Unlike the stopping agent however, the K9 handler isn't a Border Patrol agent. He's a Customs (and Border Protection) agent normally assigned to a port of entry where dogs are trained to search for drugs, guns, currency, explosives and humans who are either entering the country at the actual border or leaving