A drug dog checkpoint on I-80? Wheres the legality?

[hammerbach]

@bughunter

There’s a permanent immigration checkpoint on interstate 5 in California, north of San Diego. They stop and “inspect” every vehicle… which for passenger cars usually means nothing more than slowing down so that the nice immigre can look at everyone inside. (But like micco, I’m sure they’ll be happy to bust you for smuggling drugs as well as for smuggling aliens.)

The thing about this checkpoint, though, is that it’s smack in the middle of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, which runs for about 20 miles along I-5 and a good 20 or 30 miles from the coast inland…

In other words, if you don’t exit at Oceanside, then there’s nowhere to get off the freeway.

And for the white emigrants fleeing to Mexico, looking for better working conditions, your last exit is the anglo hell hole of San Clemente.

Way back when I was growing up in Carlsbad, I had many adventures at this checkpoint. Later on while stationed at Camp Pendleton, I found out that hundreds of people per day walked through the installation in an attempt to bypass that checkpoint. The traffic through there is amazing.