Legal Opinion
Pete Nicacio v. United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, Defendants
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 19, 1986No. 84-4074PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service appeals from a judgment of the district court which concluded that the INS was engaged in a pattern of unlawful stops to interrogate persons of Hispanic appearance traveling by automobile on Washington highways. It declared stops without a warrant unlawful unless the agents have a “particularized reasonable suspicion based on specific articulable facts” that a person in the vehicle is an illegal alien. Nicacio v. INS, 595 F.Supp. 19, 26 (E.D. Wash.1984). The judgment further ordered INS agents to keep a record of each stop…
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