• @valtia
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    13 hours ago

    “who stopped them?”. There are no checkpoints between Oregon and California

    … actually, there are checkpoints along every major roadway into California that do check incoming vehicles, mostly to find and prevent invasive species from entering the state and affecting the agricultural industry, and more broadly to protect the environmental systems in California. There have, in fact, been legal challenges against these checkpoints for violating travel laws, but the checkpoints have remained. They’ve also been used to seize non-agricultural items like weed, weapons smuggling, etc. so emissions standards checking isn’t completely out of the realm.

    Obviously, she’s lying and she doesn’t know any of this either anyway. But there are checkpoints to enter California.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Border_Protection_Stations

    • @Captain_CapsLock
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      1113 hours ago

      I can’t speak for all of them, but the I5 border station near the Oregon border hasn’t even been manned in several years. This gal is so full of shit.

      • CheezyWeezle
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        410 hours ago

        The station on Highway 97 has someone there, they’ve always just waved me through and said “have a nice day” i think they stop and inspect the agricultural trucks that go through there, tho.

    • @Furbag
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      213 hours ago

      Yeah, you’re right, but you also conveniently cut out the second half of my sentence where I specifically mentioned being turned away for emissions. Context matters.