Eleuterio Benitez-Mendez v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an individual detained in a Border Patrol vehicle while officers checked his immigration papers was seized within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment
• holding that an immigrant was unlawfully seized by a Border Patrol officer where the officer knew only that he “was a field worker whose co-workers fled upon sight of a marked Border Patrol detail,” was an “alien,” and “claimed to possess documents showing his legal status”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).