This is a so-called "border search" case. On December 31, 1973, the appellee, Barbera, an Italian citizen who had entered the United States through Canada, was detained by a border patrol agent when he failed to respond to questions regarding his citizenship during a "roving patrol" of a bus at the depot in Malone, New York.
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