§ 758
High speed flight from immigration checkpoint
Official text prohibited actmental stateif conditionpenaltylegal term
Whoever flees or evades a checkpoint operated by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, or any other Federal law enforcement agency, in a motor vehicle and flees Federal, State, or local law enforcement agents in excess of the legal speed limit shall be , imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
History: (Added Pub. L. 104–208, div. C, title I, §108(b)(1), Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–557.)
Simplified explanation
It is a federal crime to drive through or around an immigration checkpoint or other federal law enforcement checkpoint and then flee from police while going faster than the legal speed limit.