General Discussion

My wife is a permanent resident and most of the time they don't even ask to see the ID.

I would rather go through a hundred BP check points that some local or state policeman who is trying to enforce some AZ law where my wife can go to jail because she didn't happen to carry her papers.

One time I was behind a Vons truck and the dogs alerted and they opened it up an there were about 70 people crammed inside. Turns out they stole the truck.

Currently they are picking up a tidal wave of of Meth coming to the US at the checkpoints, hidden many times hidden in gas tanks:

http://www.mydesert.com/article/20120612/NEWS0801/206120315/Border-Patrol-makes-476-800-meth-bust?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFrontpage%7Cs

here are some examples of other meth grabs, all of which had to be confirmed with imaging.

http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/archives/2012_news_releases/april_2012/04272012_10.xml

http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/archives/2011_news_releases/may_2011/05262011_3.xml

http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/archives/2012_news_releases/february_2012/02092012_9.xml

These are all very recent examples of meth being found inside hidden compartments on vehicles and just in the last few weeks there have been a dozen similar finds in the sectors between El Centro and El Paso, all alerted by dogs and confirmed by imaging.

For the record I doubt the 60 mile part of your friends story because they have mobile imaging devices available at the highway stops and if the imaging isn't working they have other means to inspect at the secondary point to see if there has been any after market soldering or changes to things like gas tanks. My guess is that he was pulled over for half an hour and added the embelishment.