HSE400 Legal Issues in Homeland Security final
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From the Week 1 material:
- Define case law (provide at least two sentences).
- Using the federal code, define international terrorism and domestic terrorism.
- In week 3, 4, and 5, we practiced with case briefs and read through border security cases. For this question, I would like you to provide a case brief for United States v. Ortiz (1975). This case was a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision. Use the case brief format in Week 3. Here is the link to the Ortiz case:
United States v. Ortiz, 422 U.S. 891 (1975)
https://www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/how-to/brief-a-case
Title of the case:
Facts of the case:
Legal issue(s) argued:
The ruling or decision by the Court, along with their justification:
Were there any significant dissents? Briefly summarize:
Your brief analysis (What does the outcome mean? What is the significance? How does it impact legal authority or the interpretation of constitutional rights:
- From Week 7: Using the case law and immigration information we discussed in Week 7, consider the following:
https://www.oyez.org/cases/2011/11-182
You are a police officer in Georgia, patrolling I-75 through Atlanta. You make a traffic stop on a van for speed, and in the van are 12 people who speak little to no English. You start asking questions and find that the only person with a Georgia state ID is the driver, and he has a driver’s license. The others in the vehicle all have Mexican voter ID cards and no other forms of identification. They admit that they are in the country illegally.
Do you have the authority to arrest these individuals for entering the country illegally? Why or why not?
