How bad are the checkpoint on I-10 between TX & California?

Question

My friends and I are driving to California in August. We wanted to take I-10 but heard that the checkpoints take about 3 hours to sit through and there are a lot of them, and we don't want to have to deal with cops. Can anyone tell me any information about checkpoints throughout the San Antonio to California route? I just don't want to add more time to the trip. Thanks for any help or links to this info. Also any alternate routes (other than I-10)?

Answer 1

North out of Texas to I-40
I-40 West to Ca. Unless your going to southern Ca,
also
Due to its geographical location and extensive transportation infrastructure, the Houston Field Division continues to be a primary transshipment area for the bulk importation of most major categories of drugs to include marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine. Drug smuggling and illicit transportation are primarily dominated by Mexican, Colombian and Dominican poly-drug trafficking organizations.

The El Paso Division area-of-responsibility covers 54 counties in West Texas and New Mexico, comprising 778 miles, which is approximately 40% of the U.S./Mexico Border. The Division has 117 agents, who cover an area that includes 18 Ports-of-Entry (POE) and USBP Checkpoints, 6 of which are in New Mexico, in addition to an estimated minimum of 80 illegal crossing points. Some of these locations are over 100 miles from our offices.

This area of the Southwest is unique because of our location on the U.S./Mexico border. El Paso and its sister city, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, comprise the largest metropolitan area on the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Nearly 2 million people inhabit the El Paso/Juarez borderplex. Over 1.2 million people reside in Juarez.

The introduction of NAFTA had a major impact on the El Paso/Juarez area. The people crossing the international bridges on a daily basis and the large transportation industry available in this area (air, bus, trucking and rail) provide drug traffickers with innumerable drug and money smuggling opportunities. Rural, desert-like areas in New Mexico and West Texas, whether they be large ranches, National Park land backing up to the border, or some easily crossed places along the Rio Grande, offer tremendous smuggling opportunities to drug trafficking organizations.

West Texas serves as the gateway for narcotics destined to major metropolitan areas in the U.S., which is commonly referred to as the El Paso/Juarez Corridor. Sources-of-supply (SOS) from Mexico move significant quantities of marijuana and cocaine through the POEs using major east/west and north/south interstate highways that crisscross through the El Paso Division. These highways provide the traffickers with transportation routes for distribution of drugs throughout the country. Drug traffickers also obtain warehouses in El Paso for stash locations and recruit drivers from the area to transport the narcotics to various destinations throughout the U.S. Additional threats to the region are the shipments of controlled substances via commercial vehicles, including aircraft, buses, and by Amtrak rail. EL Paso is also considered a hub for significant amounts of drug proceeds being laundered through small businesses.

The Alpine, Texas Resident Office covers 22,609 miles, 315 of which are directly on the Southwest Border. This area is largely rural and sparsely populated, encompassing Big Bend Corridor, a transshipment route for drugs entering the U.S. from Northeast Mexico. These shipments travel en route to Midland/Odessa and other cities in the U.S. Criminal organizations based in Chihuahua, Mexico maintain command and control elements in the Midland/Odessa area to the north and in the border towns of Presidio and Redford to the south. Higher echelon members of the criminal organizations are often extended family members, making penetration of those organizations extremely difficult.

Answer 2

There is only one and it is this side of El Paso. It may take 3 min on a slow day.

Answer 3

not a unmarried individual except YOU stated "race". unlawful criminal extraterrestrial beings at the on the spot are not of a particular "race" besides. very last year the U.S. deported unlawful criminal extraterrestrial beings from over one hundred eighty international locations. you come back in this web site and ask a question about a thanks to help someone wreck THE regulation, yet you're pissed at OTHERS??? inspite of FOR????

Answer 4

the check points are not bad if you are not bad or stupid like my friend who is lilly white college kid (from canada) so we stop at check point the guy sticschis head in and says "where you boys from " we all said houston ....except my friend who said canada and he did not have his green card,6 hours later we left.its funny now it wasn't funny then.don't flirt don't be cute ,just the facts .if you act too friendly they suspect you,

Answer 5

I dont know of any check points.