Originally Posted by pigbill

This past week I have been travelling in Texas and New Mexico. On a rural road about 20 miles outside of Deming, NM I was pulled over by a border patrol agent and asked why I was in the area. He commented that he didn't see too many Texas license plates (I was 80 miles to El Paso), and was curious as to why I was there.

While he never asked for ID or for my name, he did ask if I was a US citizen. Later at the hotel I checked out what I could find on the border patrol and its authority and I cannot determine how what he did was legal. Was it?

I did get his name and can detail where this occurred if it is worth filing a complaint against him.

Oh yeah, he was in a pick-up truck with roof lights and he carried a sidearm, unlike those who asked my citizenship at the I-10 checkpoint.