In US v. ELLIS, No. 02-50556 (5th Cir. May 08, 2003) the Court reinterated what it had held in US v. Portillo-Aguirre, 311 F.3d 647 (5th Cir, 2002) that once Border Patrol agents have completed a programmatic immigration check of bus passengers, those agents may not continue to detain the passengers, absent individualized suspicion, to look for drugs. [full opinion is here (PDF)]
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