LOPEZ LOPEZ v. ARAN

No. 89-1182.

894 F.2d 16 (1990)

Celso LOPEZ LOPEZ, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. M. ARAN, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 12, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles S. Hey Maestre, Rio Piedras, P.R., with whom Instituto Puertorriqueno de Derechos Civiles and Celso E. Lopez Lopez, San Sebastian, P.R., were on brief for plaintiff, appellant.

Eduardo E. Toro Font, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Daniel F. Lopez Romo, U.S. Atty., and Vivian Reyes Lopez, Dist. Counsel, I.N.S., Hato Rey, P.R., were on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before BOWNES, Circuit Judge, ALDRICH and GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judges.


BAILEY ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.

The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) established at the Puerto Rico Isla Verde, now Luis Munoz Marin International Airport, an informal inspection procedure designed to screen illegal aliens seeking to enter the continental United States. As Puerto Rico is part of the United States, it is not an immigration threshold, and the only excuse for the INS procedure is that illegal aliens find Puerto Rico an...

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