# @bsarhq on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DcFeQ7wB114
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69094687-bsarhq-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-16T03:25:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Battalion SAR (Non-Emergency), Humanitarian NGO (@bsarhq) — https://gondola.cc/bsarhq

## Caption

🔥 USE YOUR RIGHTS — AND RECOGNIZE YOUR PRIVILEGE.

Coming out of the desert after a long, hot search today, we hit the temporary Border Patrol checkpoint on NM Highway 9.

Agent: “Are you U.S. citizens?”

Us: “Yes.”

Agent: “Where are you headed?”

Me: “Doesn’t matter.”

Agent: “Okay. Have a good day.”

Me: "BYE."

And off we went.

But remember...

We're white.

I can calmly decline to answer an unnecessary question, get a quick “okay,” and drive away. A Latin X family, a person with an accent, an Indigenous person, or someone whose citizenship an agent decides to question may have a very different experience at that exact same checkpoint.

That shouldn't be ignored.

Our rights are like muscles — use them or lose them.

But there's another part to it:

A right you can safely exercise because of how you're perceived isn't experienced equally by everyone.

Doing humanitarian work in this desert has changed the way I see these institutions. We've walked the places where border policy has consequences measured in human lives. We've found many D€∆D. We've watched families search for answers. We've seen what happens when enforcement and deterrence are prioritized while people disappear into the desert.

And today we're driving through a Border Patrol checkpoint near a corridor where more than 300 people have Dl€D in just a few years.

So yes, I'll exercise my rights.

But we also recognize that our experience doing so is not everyone's experience.

#UseYourRights #LaMigra #BorderLands

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useyourrights, lamigra, borderlands

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