Travel Warning - CBP can search your phone WITHOUT a warrant

see above.

Great to see you still are unwilling to learn a goddamn thing that doesn’t agree with your opinions and biases even when accurate information is spoon-fed to you. Keep on being you.

“ Arguing with an idiot is like playing chess with a pigeon. It'll just knock over all the pieces, shit on the board, and strut about like it's won anyway.”

Was I supposed to learn that there are checkpoints going from state to state??? That would be incorrect information, not accurate information.  Read the post, my answer and the context before you go off on and try to gaslight someone. 

… aaaand after you were informed several times to the contrary, you continued to insist there are no checkpoints at state borders. But we’re the dummies, right?

I can guarantee with 100% certainty that I have never been stopped at the ohio border from going into pennsylvania, or michigan, or tennessee, or new york or georgia.  

In the comments someone said their sister went through several states driving last week and was stopped at each state border.
AGAIN...I was disputing this comment.  So, yes, you are the dummy.

Your confidence far exceeds your competence. Far, far exceeds it.

Two things can be right at the same time: Not *ALL* states have been stopping people from crossing from state to state AND there are SOME states that do this. I know for a fact, since I lived in Las Vegas for years, there is a checkpoint going into California. However, when I would travel from Nevada to Utah, no checkpoints.

Glad to hear you’re coming around. That was the only damn point any of us made.

You completely took MY POINT out of context.  Completely!!!  Again, that makes you the dummy.

So are you trying to say that every single car traveling from oregon, nevada and arizona stops at a checkpoint going into california?  There are only 16 points where a car can cross into california?  I don't think so.  The checkpoints are for haulage/trucks.


If you travel from a US state to another US state, will there be police checkpoints on the highway that would search your vehicle once you enter a new state?



No. There are no checkpoints between states. Once in the US all lower 48 states are accessible by car, bicycle, truck, motorcycle and on foot without fear of police checkpoints.



To access Alaska you have to go through Canada and there are borders to cross there.



To access Hawaii, you have to travel by boat or plane with the checks involved there.



There are immigration checkpoints in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California which you might encounter driving near (within 100 miles I believe) the southern border with Mexico. These are run by the border patrol, not the police departments. You will be required to show your passports there if you are not US citizens.



In many states, the police will setup DUI (Driving Under the Influence) checkpoints at random, especially on Friday and Saturday nights. They generally involve rolling down your window and answering a couple of questions. The officer is looking for drunk people. If you aren’t drunk or under the influence you have nothing to worry about.



I have also seen “motorcycle safety checkpoints”, mainly in the NE where they pull over motorcycles to perform “safety checks” on them. Still don’t know what that means.



If you are operating a commercial vehicle such as a big truck or bus, you will have to stop at weigh stations at each state border - unless you have an electronic pass that is designed for you to bypass the stop. This doesn’t apply to cars and pickups or RVs in most cases. These are operated by each state’s Department of Transportation inspectors - some of whom are police officers.

When we were stationed in California, we drove across the border many times. Guess what? We always had to stop. In a car! Imagine that! They do search your vehicle if they so desire, and they will confiscate things they don't want coming across the border. So yes, it is for ALL freaking vehicles, believe it or not.

No, the Arizona/California border. 

I see you’re still trying to convince us that our checkpoints don’t really exist, cindosha. So you can be right for once?

Yes.  I have been stopped in a passenger vehicle going from NV into CA and from OR into CA.  I’ve never been to AZ but there are checkpoints.

Just as an FYI, I have global entry. I usually fly into Dulles or Seatac, and normally the entry process is that I walk to the biometric scanner, get a picture taken, have the machine tell me I am good to go, and walk out without interacting with a person.

This month, I flew into JFK; I’ve used that airport a zillion times but never for inbound international travel, so I don’t know if JFK just operates differently. But, one, after the scanner, I had to then talk to an agent who double-checked my name and photo (he sent a few people ahead of me back to the photo scanners when he didn’t like their photos, even though the machines had cleared them), and two, after passing him, I encountered agents who were pulling people aside to look in their bags.

Again, maybe that is standard for JFK, but it was new to me for global entry.