Legal Opinion
Aguilar v. United States Immigration & Customs Enforcement Division of the Department of Homeland Security
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 27, 2007No. 07-1819PublishedCited by 210 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge.
This appeal has its genesis in a dramatic raid on a leather goods factory in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Enforcement of the immigration laws is difficult and oftentimes controversial work. So it was here: the raid led to the detention of hundreds of undocumented aliens and put significant strains on those involved and those who wished to help. In short order, the detainees (many of whom were whisked away to distant places) brought a civil action alleging abridgement of a constellation of constitutional and statutory rights.
Confronted with a maze of issues, the…
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