Court Opinion

ID: 6983092
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 02:38:37.325553+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:09:18.474415
License: Public Domain

ORDER
The slip opinion (“slip op.”) filed May 13, 1999 is amended as follows:
1. At slip op. 4466, lines 22-23 of the text [177 F.3d at 1118], delete “driving and the ethnicity of the occupants;” and replace with “driving, Mexicali license plates, the Hispanic appearance of the occupants,1 and”. Renumber subsequent footnotes.
2. At slip op. 4466, line 29 of the text [177 F.3d at 1118], insert “,” between “Garcia-Barron” and “116”.

. Border Patrol agents may consider the Hispanic appearance of a motorist, but this fact alone does not justify an investigatory stop. See Brigoni-Ponce, 422 U.S. 886-87 ("The likelihood that any given person of Mexican ancestry is an alien is high enough to make Mexican appearance a relevant factor, but standing alone it does not justify stopping all Mexican-Americans to ask if they are aliens.”).