Under the Supreme Court’s decision in Brignoni-Ponce, Border Patrol agents may question suspected illegal aliens “about their citizenship and immigration status, and ... may ask them to explain suspicious circumstances.... ” 422 U.S. at 881-82, 95 S.Ct. 2574. The questions the agents asked Galindo-Gallegos in this case were what country he was from and whether he had a legal right to be in the United States. Maj. op. at 729. Those questions were directly related to the agents’ reason for stopping the group in the first place, a suspicion that they were illegal aliens. Furthermore, the agents “used no threats of force, unnecessary delays, exaggerated displays of authority or other coercive tactics” in their questioning. United States v. Torres-Sanchez, 83 F.3d 1123, 1129 (9th Cir.1996) (<HOLDING>). The agents’ questions were permissible and
holding that police executed an illegal arrest when they took a teenage suspect from his home and brought him in handcuffs to the police station for questioning holding that if a police officer inflicted no constitutional injury on a suspect it is inconceivable that the police commissioners could be liable to the suspect holding that there was no arrest when suspect was moved from his own truck to a police car holding that prosecutors who soon after arrest of suspect allegedly directed police to coerce confession from suspect were not entitled to absolute immunity because interrogation is ordinarily a police activity holding that police officers had probable cause to arrest a suspect where the facts suggest a fair probability that the suspect has committed a crime