So, we are saying that border control authorities are not empowered to search persons and vehicles and property coming into the country?
Pine Valley, CA, is some miles north of the border, so, I am assuming that this is a 'flying tribunal' or 'mobile border force' that is empowered by law to stop people and vehicles in pursuit of border-control goals.
Under what authority (statute, etc.) do such 'interior' border checkpoints operate?
Do they have the same powers in the interior as they do on the actual border-line?
I haven't got a friggin' clue, and, if someone has such answers, I'd be interested in reading them.
Everyone is sufficiently up-to-speed on the illegal search-and-seizure and warrant issues raised by Constitutional law, but I'm wondering if the law that DOES allow such interior-patrol operations was crafted after a loophole was found in Constitutional interpretation or something.
I'm about as ignorant of such things as one can get, so I'd really like to know.