Date:         Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:04:35 -0600
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From:         jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
Subject:      Re: Coast toCoast!
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On 4/12/05 10:20, "jbange" <hfinn@INGRATES.NET> wrote:

>> in
>> Arizona, on I-10, border guards stop all traffic.  I suspect that they think
>> if you're illegal you just tell them.  Personally, I found it a bit intrusive
>> to be asked where I was going and where did I come from and things got a
>> little bit worse when I started asking the "guard" why he needed this
>> information.
> 
> You sure it was Arizona and not California? California has agricultural
> inspection stations on all the major interstates. It may seem like  they're
> giving you the "papers please" number, but really they only care if you're
> bringing potentially pest-infested produce in from other states. Pretty
> sure the Border Patrol has never put up check points on intra-US highways
> like the 10.
> 
> 

I got a message from a traveling friend that he has been stopped in southern
AZ when he runs his camper truck or his van but never in his car.  He said
that they are the standard pull everything over for paper check and quick
safety look over and then waved through.  He said it was strange though when
he wasn¹t asked for anything when he was in his car. He was just waved
through.  He said he believes it is because at this time of the year is when
most of the major death incidents on the highway happen from illegal travel.
Here in colorado we have had two major accidents already this year with a
child and two adults dead so far from a camper truck with something like 15
in it and a van with 18 in it.  Last year a packed camper truck with 12 went
off the road and I think half were killed in that one.  I have been safety
checked twice already this year on those same back roads.  It wasn¹t until
the memo I got from him that I realized that every safety check I have been
pulled over for has been on one of the back roads that is popular with the
coyote.

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