What do immigration checkpoints look for?
What do immigration checkpoints look for? Border Patrol may stop vehicles at certain checkpoints to: (1) ask a few, limited questions to verify citizenship of the vehicles' occupants and (2) visually inspect the exterior of a vehicle. Agents may send any vehicle to a secondary inspection area for the same purpose: brief questioning and visual inspection.
What can Border Patrol search?
At Ports of Entry (Border Crossings) Officers may search any person, the inside of any vehicle, and all passenger belongings. Officers do not need a warrant, any suspicion of wrongdoing, or consent to do any of these things.