Quote Originally Posted by personified
I actually live in Az and have driven I-10 through NM I only remember being checked going from East to West. Do the check when going the other direction say from Deming to Las Cruces? I also only seem to remember the next one going from East to West in Az after the border of NM.
Is a totally different ball game. In NM I haven't ever seen the BP hiding along I-10 or I-25. Once you pass Truth or Consequences by 15 miles or so you rarely will see them,driving even. In Arizona,way before this whole "money and guns to Mexico" thing became national news I wasn't stopped but southbound to Nogales I saw a temporary check that was set up to stop in both directions. I then passed through another temporary check on northbound 19.

There is a westbound check between Las Cruces and Deming. All paved roads leading away from Las Cruces have permanent,rip your car apart, checkpoints. There are 2 on NB 25,one open at a time. So Slayer and Bob are correct Cruces wouldn't make much sense.

So to ultimately answer your question we don't have what you do in Arizona. The focus at this very moment is on roads leading AWAY from El Paso. Supposedly they check for southbound contraband on the U.S. side of the border. The Mexicans COULD have been doing this all along but we all know why they haven't.