Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Lopez-Mendoza
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Prologue Projects
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
I think we can all agree that the Constitution guarantees every individual certain unalienable rights–oh wait, sorry, getting a call. Right. Sorry. Okay. Yea. Got it. Hey, so I think we can all agree that immigration law is different from other laws, and the Constitution doesn’t really apply there.
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| 0:00.0 | Immigration and naturalization service, it comes to Lopez Mendoza. |
| 0:08.0 | Hey everyone, this is Leon from Prologue Projects. |
| 0:11.6 | On this episode of 5 to 4, Peter, Riannon, and Michael are talking about INS v. Lopez |
| 0:17.6 | Mendoza, a case from the 1980s about the extent to which constitutional rights |
| 0:22.3 | applied to deportation proceedings. Two undocumented Mexican workers were arrested while on the job |
| 0:28.0 | by immigration and naturalization service agents and ordered to be deported. The workers sued, |
| 0:34.3 | arguing that their Fourth Amendment rights were violated because the agents didn't have a |
| 0:38.0 | warrant when they entered their workplace. But the Supreme Court sided with INS, saying that immigration |
| 0:43.7 | cases are civil, not criminal, so people facing deportation need not be afforded the same protections |
| 0:49.3 | as criminal defendants. This is 5 to 4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks. |
| 1:02.8 | Welcome to 5 to 4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have filled |
| 1:07.6 | our country with racism like a young Republican group chat. |
| 1:11.2 | I'm Peter. |
| 1:12.2 | I'm here with Michael. |
| 1:13.2 | Hey, everybody. |
| 1:14.0 | And Riannon. |
| 1:14.6 | Hello. |
| 1:15.3 | Can we just talk about the young lads in the group chat? |
| 1:20.6 | Peter's referring to a young Republicans group chat where they're all gross, racist, |
| 1:26.5 | Nazis and their identity their identity whatever has been |
| 1:29.5 | revealed so there's some photos going around uh this is a type of guy yeah with a type of look |
| 1:36.2 | and i think we should all start being braver and saying that this look is disgusting |
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