"Armed and masked DHS agents, including ICE, CBP, and USBP, have roamed Charlotte, Durham, Raleigh, and other communities, arresting and detaining people indiscriminately without warrants or legal justification. Despite public outcry, DHS violence has persisted."
"The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina (ACLUNC), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Democracy Forward, and Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) filed the lawsuit on behalf of five plaintiffs representing a class of similarly situated people subjected to warrantless immigration arrests."
"The lawsuit names ICE, CBP, USBP, DHS, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, CBP Commissioner Rodney S. Scott, Chief of Border Patrol Michael W. Banks, Senior Official Performing the Duties of ICE Director Todd Lyons, and Atlanta ICE Field Office Director for Enforcement and Removal Operation Sean Gallagher as defendants."
Civil rights organizations including the ACLU, Democracy Forward, and Southern Coalition for Social Justice filed a lawsuit in North Carolina federal court against DHS and its agencies—ICE, CBP, and Border Patrol—for conducting warrantless immigration arrests. The lawsuit represents five individual plaintiffs and a class of similarly situated people affected by aggressive enforcement operations in Charlotte, Durham, Raleigh, and other communities. The plaintiffs include naturalized citizens, U.S.-born citizens, and visa holders who were arrested without legal justification or warrants. The lawsuit challenges the Trump administration's accelerated immigration crackdown and names DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and other agency leadership as defendants.
Read at southerncoalition.org
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