Border Patrol Checkpoint, Texas Relocation Tribulations
A host describes a relocation to Austin, Texas, involving a confrontation at a highway border patrol checkpoint on I-10. The account details a drug dog's false positive on a vehicle containing wine and plants, leading to a search and a temporary detention. The narrative highlights the use of prison cells for restroom breaks and the perceived lack of Fourth Amendment protections at internal checkpoints.
austin· texas· border patrol· las cruces· fourth amendment· drug dogs· probable cause
00:00 I... it's a lot of- There is no conflict! There is no conflict! No conflict!! Now we got a little stinger in there. What's the stinger doing there? Well, it's whenever when you're short then you get the stinger So I got a little bit of Acoustics issue today
00:48 Well you're now in Texas. Yes, we're in Austin Tejas. Congratulations let me give you an ARIA ready? Thank you and here's one back at ya. For you to be in Texas, I understand you had some interesting tribulations getting there? Yes! Well... So remember we had that one border patrol pop-up border patrol And you were stopped outside of Las Cruces or something Exactly so once we entered West Texas and this is like a whole bunch of nothing and of course it's nowhere near any border There was another pop up
01:26 And I had, you know after that first experience. I was like you know... I gotta see exactly what i'm supposed to do in one of these and what I'm supposed to say Now I do not have to answer any questions Because the only question the border patrol agent asks is What is your country of citizenship? and I don't even have to answer that No, you should say no senor Montekio! Montekio want Windex Sorry South Park reference. However, Mickey being a visiting alien on a visa has no Fourth Amendment right so she has to answer and you know the only way you could do is search and seizure if there's some kind of probable cause right if there's some reasonable suspicion that you're doing something So here's how they did it this time
02:25 We're waiting there and this is literally I-10, right? I-10 eastbound. There's miles and miles of nothing then all of a sudden you get routed off we're waiting in line and they kind of passing everybody through... How are you routed off is just like a roadblock yeah oh yeah the road it's like literally blocked its block yeah your sent to the side And it's a structure by the way. It's not, uh... It-it's an honest to God structure and turns out later they have prison cells there and everything I'll get into that in a second. So we're waiting there in line. Prison cells off to the side? Oh yeah! Of the road? Yeah! It gets better. So we're waiting there and then the guy is walking ummm.... I guess a drug dog past all of the vehicles
03:12 And I saw him actually bite the tire of the car in front of us, which was like, well okay this dog is serious. He actually bit the tire! and he's walking by and all of a sudden he jumps up- and Mickey was driving- jumps up against her window freaking out. By the way that freaked Mickey out too. Yeah it's scary when all of a sudden this dog jumps up so of course that was oh uh well there's your probable cause you got hit from the dog So, you know they say are you American citizen? What country are you from and I don't answer. Mickey says well I'm from the Netherlands what do you have your visa and of course she has everything Okay pull the car over to the side so we pulled a car over And uh... You know get out Because now they have their probable cause right because yeah Well you got we gotta hit on the dog who of course is trained to do whatever but there's no drugs in our car But it was filled with I dunno like
04:11 Ten cases of wine, we had my pepper plant. We had Bougainville all the stuff that the trucking company wouldn't take. Yeah must be And then, you know I said step over here and by the way i'm smoking one of my roll-up cigarettes. Oh that's real smart yeah! Yeah like no I just gonna leave it here and they go to light it. No smoke in here okay why not there's no smoking here all right so just hold it in my mouth right? And I got a three day beard and I got the hat on You know I get the hat with like the drawn on gun in the hat band Why don't you wear a T shirt that says shoot me And then I put my hand in my pocket because it's cold. Take your hand out of your pocket! Okay? Says, we're here looking for illegal drugs and illegal humans. Okay... You know that marijuana is not legal in the state of Texas right? Yeah yeah well we don't smoke marijuana Then they let the dog into the car and he's freaking out He's digging in my pepper plants
05:15 I'm like hey. Hey, can you do that with a little bit of love and these guys? They're all six two six three all juiced up all like yeah They are just like oh my you know what I don't want Mickey to get thrown in jail if it were If she weren't there, if it was just me and my Fourth Amendment rights I am for sure going to do this differently. Anyway at a certain point... It's taken awhile they're trying to find something they can't find anything and Mickey is like I really have to go the bathroom yeah well there is rest stop two miles down the road but I gotta go now been waiting here for half hour
05:55 Well, uh... well you got cells. Mickey's like what do you mean you got cells? A prison cell! What?! Yeah that's the only place she can pee So she went in and pissed- So she's been in prison already She's been in prison, she peed in the prison cell I said you know they're all watching She says I don't care I had to go So, uh... Watch it. It was really bad. So what did the dog- What was the dog all upset about? That doesn't make- The dogs aren't that don't usually do false positives. Well I- Must have been a residual smoke on your clothes No no no What i think is I think the dog is just either overly trained or overly sensitive so that they just have a reason to get into your car and when you got a hit from a dog then they have probably know they have reasonable suspicion Oh, scam Yeah oh its total scam
06:42 Dog yeah, and these guys they were awesome. They were pissed off They couldn't find anything man They were like well you probably looked like it's a like a guy who would have something at the time the way you described No I look like a guy who would be dealing something Much better than just the guy who would have something and then yeah? They found my tin of tobacco and like oh Strike strike damn nothing in there right It's funny Anyway, so we did make it. We arrived in Austin and good luck according to all of the
