Immigrant rights groups filed suit on Wednesday seeking to block the Trump administration’s “ongoing pattern and practice of flouting the Constitution and federal law” during immigration raids in the Los Angeles area — including racial profiling, warrantless arrests and denying access to counsel to people held in a “dungeonlike” facility, The New York Times reported.
The lawsuit describes the region as “under siege” by agents carrying out “indiscriminate immigration raids flooding street corners, bus stops, parking lots, agricultural sites [and] day laborer corners.”
Mohammad Tajsar, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, a group which is one of the litigants in the case, told the Los Angeles Times that “these guys are popping up, rampant all over the city, just taking people randomly, and we want that particular practice to end.”
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