The State - News from Aug. 18, 1985
Immigration officers looking for illegal aliens cannot stop and search people simply because they seem to be Latino and have a “lean and hungry look” and “a dirty and unkempt” appearance, the U.S. 9th District Court in San Francisco has ruled. The ruling stemmed from a Washington state case in which Immigration and Naturalization Service officers stopped 22 people for questioning about their citizenship as they drove to work in an agricultural district. All 22 were U.S. citizens.
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