When Form 2350 Checkpoint 2023-2024

A hundred and eighty miles south of Phoenix, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly visited the border city of Nogales today to hammer home the Trump team's commitment to border security. But there are already tough measures in place. The border is guarded by agents with military-grade surveillance equipment, as well as special checkpoints that can be set up on roads and highways anywhere within a hundred miles of a US border. Within that vast zone, border control is given broad leeway to stop, detain, and search vehicles. And for people who live there, the agents are a constant and often invasive presence. David Noriega went to southern Arizona to see what life is like within the hundred-mile zone. This is a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint in southern Arizona. It's one of three that choke off all routes north between Nogales and Sasabe. Right in the middle is a tiny unincorporated community called Arivaca. There isn't much in Arivaca, meaning that whenever residents leave town for things like shopping and banking, they have to go through the Border Patrol. A few years ago, a group of residents in Arivaca decided they had had enough. They called themselves People Helping People and, working from this tiny office, one of only a handful of buildings on Arivaca's main drag, they made plans to monitor the closest checkpoint. "What kind of equipment do you guys usually bring with you?" "We bring clipboards with forms in which we document the number of people coming through the checkpoint and any incidents that could happen. Once or twice a week." Peter Reagan makes the trip to the checkpoint, where he and other volunteers spend hours documenting the Border Patrol agents. The group says the data gathered at the checkpoint shows that Latinos are more than 20 times more likely to be asked...