Aero-Mexico

Aero-Mexico appeals to this court from the district court’s grant of the government’s motion for summary judgment for $700, the amount of a fine imposed against it by the Board of Immigration Appeals for illegally “landing” an alien in the United States.

FACTUAL BACKGROUND

On April 20, 1974, Aero-Mexico, a Mexican commercial air carrier, transported one Manuel Meza-Valdez, an alien, into the United States at Los Angeles, California from Tijuana, Mexico aboard its Flight 148. Upon landing, Mr. Meza was presented by Aero-Mexico to an officer of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service for inspection. The Immigration officer determined preliminarily that Mr. Meza should be excluded from entry into the. United States. Aero-Mexico was directed to present Mr. Meza at the Los Angeles office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (I.N.S.) for an exclusion hearing on April 22, 1974. Aero-Mexico hired Lawrence Security to provide detention custody for Mr. Meza. The armed guard from Lawrence Security held Mr. Meza in custody at the Hacienda Hotel in Room 124. The following morning when the security agent opened the door for a hotel employee, Mr. Meza grabbed the…