>>>*Of course a police officer is nothing more than a citizen that is given the JOB of enforcing the laws, people seem to forget that.

Any citizen may attempt to enforce the same laws in the same fashion, it's just that they had better be correct because with an officer it is a duty and with a citizen it is a right. Actually it is also a duty for any private citizen to try to enforce laws but the perception there has seemed to change over the last few decades.

The best advice I can give is if the officer says jump, then jump. Wait until later and there is lots of people around to deal with any out of line conduct.

Most officers will demonstrate restraint but every once in awhile you can run into one that is out of line and does not like "Failure to mind", perceiving that as a threat to their authority. Challenges to that just escalate things, and one can end up with a night in jail.

They will just make something up and make it stick, too.

As far as checking for illegals 50 miles from the border? I would like them to come and check around here, we are 1200+ miles from the border and there really isn't a shortage of them.....*EB