Everybody in the U.S. has Constitutional rights, including undocumented immigrants. But the Trump administration is doing their darnedest to make you think otherwise. It’s great to see a group of southern California residents and activist organizations standing up against the fascism.
Via the Los Angeles Daily News:
The lawsuit accuses federal immigration authorities of racial profiling, making unlawful arrests, not properly identifying themselves amid immigration raids, holding detainees in poor conditions and denying them the right to a lawyer.
“Armed, masked goons in unmarked cars have descended in our communities and have stopped and rounded people up from all walks of life,” said Mohammad Tajsar, a senior attorney with ACLU, “often at gunpoint and without any justification.”
Attorneys said they’re requesting temporary restraining orders to stop federal immigration authorities from making stops without suspicion, arrests without probable cause and denial of access to counsel to detainees ahead of a federal court date.
