The following excerpt is from United States v. Almeida-Sanchez, 452 F.2d 459 (9th Cir. 1972):
The language in Carroll v. United States, supra, 267 U.S. at 154, 45 S.Ct. at 285, upon which the "border search" doctrine is based, indicates that for this purpose a search for aliens is indistinguishable from a search for merchandise: "Travelers may be so stopped in crossing an international boundary because of national self-protection reasonably requiring one entering the country to identify himself as entitled to come in, and his belongings as effects which may be lawfully brought in" (emphasis added).
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