AZ used to have agriculture inspection stations till about fifteen years
ago.  The then governor decided they were a waste of money and didn't
really do any good anyway - "Do you have any produce form elsewhere?"

"No."

"OK, drive safely."

Karl Wolz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
Behalf Of
> jbange
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 9:20 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Coast toCoast!
>
> >in
> >Arizona, on I-10, border guards stop all traffic.  I suspect that
they think
> >if you're illegal you just tell them.  Personally, I found it a bit
intrusive
> >to be asked where I was going and where did I come from and things
got a
> >little bit worse when I started asking the "guard" why he needed this
> >information.
>
> You sure it was Arizona and not California? California has
agricultural
> inspection stations on all the major interstates. It may seem like
they're
> giving you the "papers please" number, but really they only care if
you're
> bringing potentially pest-infested produce in from other states.
Pretty
> sure the Border Patrol has never put up check points on intra-US
highways
> like the 10.