But here Is where we are. ladies and gentlemen. Do not miss the impact of this. This happened back in the days of putting together the original legislation and what you want to recall is that no other U.S. law enforcement agencynoneexcept the Immigration and Naturalization Service requires a warrant. a search warrant. to enter and/or search open agricultural farmland. No other agency of enforcement in the United States is required to do that. That requirement that the INS agents obtain a warrant for such a search was placed In the law in 1986 by what I refer to as an unholy alliance between the agricultural growers and the ACLU. You really will not find the ACLU and the agricultural growers in the same sack very often. All other law enforcement agentsthat is a DEA agent. a local police officer. even a local sheriff--can. without a warrant. and if they have probable cause. search an open field for drugs or for a dead body. INS officers alone are prohibited by law from entering a field to enforce immigration laws. Of course. the effect of this requirement is to make it extremely difficult to enforce our laws against the employment of Illegal agricultural workers. There are tremendous abuses in that field.
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