Perspective
Nov. 11, 2016
Killed in Mexico, from US soil
This term the U.S. Supreme Court should — and likely will — hold that people in the some circumstances non-citizens enjoy Fourth Amendment rights. By Martin J. Siegel
On a June afternoon six years ago, hard by one of the bridges linking El Paso and Juarez, Sergio Hernandez was playing a game Mexican kids like him had loved for years. They dared each other to run down and then up the dry culvert that used to be the Rio Grande, touch the American barbed wire fence, and sprint back. This time, though, things went wrong.
A U.S. Customs and Baorder Patrol (CBP) agent appeared from nowhere a...
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