thereisnospoon
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What happens when you assert your rights protected by the constitution at an internal DHS checkpoint?
This happens...
What Happens When You Insist on Your 5th Amendment Rights to Not Answer Questions or Show Your Papers to Immigration Cops in an Empty Desert Somewhere? - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
Troubling technicality....
If one interprets the 5th amendment( one cannot be compelled to be a witness against oneself) strictly, that applies to a trial. Answering questions such as giving law enforcement your name and presenting identification have been ruled valid by the SC.
Police officers can ask and expect answers to basic questions. Until an arrest has been made an the suspect Mirandized, one DOES NOT have the right to remain silent.
This is where the person being questioned has a choice. They can endure the hassle of police questioning, or they can waste hours of their time battling with the cops over a trivial matter such as "where are you going" and "where are you coming from"...
Quite frankly I just make up shit when I'm pulled over. It's none of the cop's business where I've been or where I'm going.
Understand this, when a police officer stops you he considers you a suspect until he discovers otherwise. so when the cop asks you those questions he is "building a case against you"...Do not let him do this.
There is one thing that bugs the living shit out of me....If the person in this incident was Latino, he would have gotten the once over easy and allowed to go on his way.
This entire immigration issue is bullshit.