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D.C. Circuit enjoins police checkpoints to screen neighborhood entrants.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

In 1994, a border patrol agent stopped my car many miles north of the United States-Mexico border, as I drove at night towards my resting point in Albuquerque from Las Cruces, New Mexico. The stop was not pleasant, as the border patrol agent checked the back of my rental car -- perhaps to see if the trunk was weighted down with illegal drugs, smuggled people, or unauthorized mescal -- and then proceeded to try to get me to say I have a green card (maybe I've had a plaid card, but not a green one), and then waved me on after giving me his name, which I had requested, ultimately for no benefit. I already knew from my immigration law class that the Supreme Court had generally allowed such checkpoints deep into the border. United States v. Martinez-Fuerte, 428 U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on July 16, 2009 (boomark / email).