Sobriety checkpoint planned for weekend

Jeez, why don't they just announce a detailed map so the drunkards can avoid those areas?

Joe wrote:

Jeez, why don't they just announce a detailed map so the drunkards can avoid those areas?

LOL! True That! Good Job El Paso Times

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Checkpoints are illegal. Whether it be too check for sobriety, insurance,licenses or citizenship. I thought we lived in a noncommunist country. Land of the free my arse

Gapo Chuzman wrote:

Checkpoints are illegal. Whether it be too check for sobriety, insurance,licenses or citizenship. I thought we lived in a noncommunist country. Land of the free my arse

perhaps you should look of the defination of a communist. further, stay in mexico. next, these checkpoints arent illegal in NEW MEXICO. Texas does not allow them but New Mexico does.

really wrote:

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perhaps you should look of the defination of a communist. further, stay in mexico. next, these checkpoints arent illegal in NEW MEXICO. Texas does not allow them but New Mexico does.

Well, I can only stay in Mexico until 5p.m. That is when I have to leave my job as a manager of several ¨maquiladoras¨ here in Juarez and travel back to my home on the westside of El Paso in the US. Perhaps you should look at a dictionary to find the proper way to spell d-e-f-i-n-i-t-i-o-n. Many states have checkpoints. That does not mean that they are constitionally correct. Look up McGrath v. Huntington Park Police Dept. It was a case in California involving an illegal search and seizure as a result of a sobriety checkpoint. Checkpoints are held in countries like China and Cuba that practice Communism. Free countries like France and England outlaw these types of checkpoints. Are we a free country or a communist country?

Gapo Chuzman wrote:

Checkpoints are illegal. Whether it be too check for sobriety, insurance,licenses or citizenship. I thought we lived in a noncommunist country. Land of the free my arse

Excuse me, but this is happening in Las Cruces, NM (United States)not Juarez, Mexico. Need to pay attention to your geography lesson there buddy.

really wrote:

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perhaps you should look of the defination of a communist. further, stay in mexico. next, these checkpoints arent illegal in NEW MEXICO. Texas does not allow them but New Mexico does.

I seem to remember something about unreasonable searches in the US constitution.

Gapo Chuzman wrote:

<quoted text>Well, I can only stay in Mexico until 5p.m. That is when I have to leave my job as a manager of several ¨maquiladoras¨ here in Juarez and travel back to my home on the westside of El Paso in the US. Perhaps you should look at a dictionary to find the proper way to spell d-e-f-i-n-i-t-i-o-n. Many states have checkpoints. That does not mean that they are constitionally correct. Look up McGrath v. Huntington Park Police Dept. It was a case in California involving an illegal search and seizure as a result of a sobriety checkpoint. Checkpoints are held in countries like China and Cuba that practice Communism. Free countries like France and England outlaw these types of checkpoints. Are we a free country or a communist country?

Then move to France or to one of the eleven states, Texas included, which have banned sobriety check points in this country. Then reference the 1990 US Supreme Court ruling in Michigan Department of State Police v. Sitz. The 6-3 ruling pretty much seals the deal. Or you could not drive drunk and just get over it.

I wish they had done this before i got mine, ooopps thats right, just pick up a scanner and you can figure out where they are. Locations are advertised on air.

Heard that in Las Cruces, costs you mega-loads of cash for the DUI process, plus a lengthy process. Stay clean, stay safe and don't harm anybody else.

Gapo Chuzman wrote:

<quoted text>Well, I can only stay in Mexico until 5p.m. That is when I have to leave my job as a manager of several ¨maquiladoras¨ here in Juarez and travel back to my home on the westside of El Paso in the US. Perhaps you should look at a dictionary to find the proper way to spell d-e-f-i-n-i-t-i-o-n. Many states have checkpoints. That does not mean that they are constitionally correct. Look up McGrath v. Huntington Park Police Dept. It was a case in California involving an illegal search and seizure as a result of a sobriety checkpoint. Checkpoints are held in countries like China and Cuba that practice Communism. Free countries like France and England outlaw these types of checkpoints. Are we a free country or a communist country?

We can argue all day about spelling. For example, you keep referring to the constitution. I for one do not undertand what "constitionally" means nor do i know what "arse" refers to. Perhaps YOU should look it up, especially if you are premising your entire argument on it. Second, please do not reference California case law. That case law has no effect here. Furthermore, i'm sure the facts of the case involved an officer exceeding the scope of his valid stop. Moreover, i'm sure you've heard of something called the Supremacy Clause.

Gregory was correct, you need to look up and read Michigan Department of State Police v. Sitz. In that case, the SUPREME COURT, held in a 6-to-3 decision, that the roadblocks did not violate the Fourth Amendment. The Court noted that "no one can seriously dispute the magnitude of the drunken driving problem or the States' interest in eradicating it." The Court then found that "the weight bearing on the other scale--the measure of the intrusion on motorists stopped briefly at sobriety checkpoints--is slight." The Court also found that empirical evidence supported the effectiveness of the program.

You work in our neighboring country. Wow, freedom to travel.

I live in Albuquerque where they have at least 2 check points a weekend $ even somtimes on the weekdays. They also have the authority to take your car on your very 1st offense & auction it off before you have a trial. Also the legal limit here is .08 (the same I believe in Texas) However here you could blow a .04 but if the aressting officer says you are impaired you still go to jail car siezed & auctioned away & believe it or not some here say our laws are not strict enough.

$=& sorry

Gregory wrote:

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Then move to France or to one of the eleven states, Texas included, which have banned sobriety check points in this country. Then reference the 1990 US Supreme Court ruling in Michigan Department of State Police v. Sitz. The 6-3 ruling pretty much seals the deal. Or you could not drive drunk and just get over it.

Why should I move to France? I live in El Paso. My family lives in El Paso. I graduated from Cathedral. I graduated from UTEP. I was born in this lovely city. Who are you to make me leave? By the way, I do not drink. Perhaps limiting liquor licenses would put an end to all the DWI drivers. Education helps as well. Reading the

Viva wrote:

Heard that in Las Cruces, costs you mega-loads of cash for the DUI process, plus a lengthy process. Stay clean, stay safe and don't harm anybody else.

Wrong-o. Getting caught without tags for your Dog will cost you less then your first DUI in Cruces... sad sad.

And to those of you who start complaining that they are unconstitutional- if you dont drink and drive, you wont have a problem with them, or at least thats the way I see it.

Viva wrote:

Heard that in Las Cruces, costs you mega-loads of cash for the DUI process, plus a lengthy process. Stay clean, stay safe and don't harm anybody else.

Its costs mega loads of cash for the DUI process anywhere. I agree "Don't Drink and Drive"

Gapo Chuzman wrote:

<quoted text>Why should I move to France? I live in El Paso. My family lives in El Paso. I graduated from Cathedral. I graduated from UTEP. I was born in this lovely city. Who are you to make me leave? By the way, I do not drink. Perhaps limiting liquor licenses would put an end to all the DWI drivers. Education helps as well. Reading the

Limiting liquor liscences only means that impaired people will have to drive further to get home. Maybe if there were MORE liscences, then there could be more establishments within walking distances of say the University and other large residential areas we could in essence drop the rate of drinking and driving? That and I also believe that if we in Las Cruces had a better system for public transportation this problem may go down some.

Yes I live in Cruces, no I dont know why it shows me in Phoenix.

Gapo Chuzman wrote:

<quoted text>Why should I move to France? I live in El Paso. My family lives in El Paso. I graduated from Cathedral. I graduated from UTEP. I was born in this lovely city. Who are you to make me leave? By the way, I do not drink. Perhaps limiting liquor licenses would put an end to all the DWI drivers. Education helps as well. Reading the

You sir, are a disgrace to the fine establishment that is Cathedral. First, you premise your entire argument on inapplicable law. Next, you claim that we Americans lack "freedom" and label the USA as a communist country. Third, you propose we limit liquor licenses as a means to "ending all DWI" drivers. On your last point, limiting licenses will not "end all DWI," rather, a change needs to be made in the dram shop laws, whether it be for a bar patron or a social guest at a house. Bottom line: DWIs in El Paso is an epidemic, its epidemic for our entire country. As stated in a previous comment, public transportation needs to overhauled.

Designer wrote:

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Wrong-o. Getting caught without tags for your Dog will cost you less then your first DUI in Cruces... sad sad.
And to those of you who start complaining that they are unconstitutional- if you dont drink and drive, you wont have a problem with them, or at least thats the way I see it.

Let me see if I can comprehend your post.
It'll cost you *less* if your dog doesn't have tags, and it'll cost you *more* for a DUI. Re-read my post, I said it was costly for a DUI. So you just reiterated what I said!