In 2010, Paul Butler published a law review article entitled The White Fourth Amendment, (citation is [43 Tex. Tech. L. Rev 245 [not online for free]], for those of you with access to Westlaw or Lexis). In the article, Butler explains how legal rules established by the Supreme Court over the past fifty years have created a substantive body of law for police conduct that leads inextricably to racially disparate policing. What follows is an excerpt from the article in which Butler describes the facts from a case called Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Delgado, in which mostly Mexican factory workers were searched based on a hunch by INS agents that the factory was populated by illegal immigrants. What occurred in that factory provides an excellent case study of how exactly a \u201cWhite\u201d Fourth Amendment works in practice: …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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