Simply because a farm is an easy mark offering the simplest and most cost efficient means of reaching quota objectives is no reason to apply a different set of rules. The lack of a search warrant requirement allows INS agents to concentrate their enforcement activities on agriculture. where 8 to 15 percent of the illegals in the country are currently employed. Although this small amount of undocumented workers are employed in agriculture. fully 50 percent of undocumented workers picked up by INS agents in the interior of the country are captured while working in agricultural occupations. These figures show a distinct bias in INS enforcement activities and serve notice that farmers and farm workers are not receiving equal protection as envisioned in our Constitution. The INS contends that farm lands are "open fields" and their agents need not obtain consent or show probable cause that some criminal activity is occurring prior to entering a farmers fields.
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