Legal Opinion
United States v. Ellis
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 9, 2003No. 02-50556PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:
The controlling issue in this case is whether, after Border Patrol agents have completed a programmatic immigration check of bus passengers, those agents may continue to detain the passengers, absent individualized suspicion, to look for drugs. Because we have previously held that this type of continued detention violates the Fourth Amendment, see United States v. Portillo-Aguirre, 311 F.3d 647 (5th Cir.2002), we reverse.
I. FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS
On December 14, 1998 a Greyhound bus entered the Sierra Blanca checkpoint and was stopped for an immigration check of…
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