SoCal Residents Sue DHS For Unlawful Arrest and Detention
Southern California residents, workers, and advocacy groups sued the Department of Homeland Security for abducting and disappearing community members using unlawful stop and arrest practices and confining them in illegal conditions.
Seeking to end the government’s practice of placing immigration holds on individuals without probable cause, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (ACLU/SC), the National Day Labor Organizing Network (NDLON), and the law firm Kaye, McLane, Bednarski & Litt filed a class-action lawsuit today against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The lawsuit follows the detention of plaintiff Gerardo Gonzalez Jr., a 23-year-old American-born citizen, who is presently held at a Los Angeles County jail on an immigration hold.