I live about 10-12 miles from the Canadian border. I've worked with the USBP over 20 years, they've pulled my butt out of the fire a couple times and vice versa. Some of the very young guys can be a little over the top, but that goes for any line of work. I've also been stopped dozens and dozens of times at their checkpoints and I've never had anything even approaching a confrontation or experienced any rude behavior. That's with guys that didn't know me from Adam. I've also stood checkpoints with the BP and I've never seen anything confrontational except where the citizen/illegal made it a problem. When you have someone do everything in their power to provoke a response...well, what do you really expect to have happen?
Some of the people who complain the most about the BP are the same people complaining about the porous border and illegals. That makes zero sense to me.
And yes, the USBP can have checkpoints well away from the border. I forget the distances, but they are significant.
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