A lawsuit was filed against the administration of President Donald Trump claiming that the masked agents have been pointing to “individuals with brown skin” in southern California, stopping them without probable cause and keeping them in conditions of “dungeons” in the efforts to deport them.
The claim, presented in the Central District of California on Wednesday, tries to block the “continuous pattern and the practice of the administration to mock the Constitution and the Federal Law.” The demand seeks to stop “indiscriminate immigration operations that flood the corners of the streets, bus stops, parking lots, agricultural sites, the corners of the day workers and other places …”
“Since June 6, masked and masked thugs have descended on Los Angeles, terrorizing our brown communities and destroying the Constitution in the process,” Mohammad Tajsar, a lawyer in the southern California, who represents the plaintiffs in a statement, said in a statement.
An ICE agent supervises hundreds of asylum applicants processed when entering the Federal Building Jacob K. Javits on June 6, 2023 in New York City.
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“No matter their state or the color of their skin, all are guaranteed by constitutional rights to protect them from illegal stops. We will be responsible for the DHS.”
The assistant secretary of the Department of National Security, Tricia McLaughlin, told ABC News in a statement that the accusations that claim that public order forces have attacked people due to the color of their skin are not true.
“Any statement that individuals have been ‘attacked’ by the application of the law due to their skin color are disgusting and categorically false,” McLaughlin said. “These types of spots are designed to demonize and village our brave application of the Ice Law.”
An important complaint in demand alleges that detainees remain in lower quality confinement facilities that are harmful to their general health.
“The members of the South California community have been taken and disappeared in a dungeon -shaped dungeon -shaped dungeon that lacks food, medical care, basic hygiene and beds,” said Mark Rosenbaum, a public advisor lawyer who represents the plaintiffs, in a statement. “The objective of this draconian repression is to eviscerate the basic rights of due process and protect from the public view of the horrible ways in which ice agents and border patrol treat citizens and residents who have been stigmatized by our government as violent criminals based only on skin color.”
McLaughlin told ABC News on Wednesday that immigration and customs application centers have higher standards than most of the United States prisons and that those who are stopping are receiving appropriate meals and medical care.
“All detainees receive adequate meals, medical treatment and have opportunities to communicate with lawyers and their relatives,” McLaughlin said in a statement on Wednesday.
“This includes the examination of medical, dental and mental health admission within 12 hours after arrival at each detention center, a complete health evaluation within 14 days after the entrance of the custody of the ice or the arrival at an installation, and access to medical appointments and the emergency care of 24 hours. This is the best health that many foreigners have received in their life.
The raids of southern California have led to the arrest of more than 1,500 people, according to the lawyers of the plaintiffs. They claim that federal agents constantly refuse to identify or with which agency are when they are asked, using anonymity as a tactic to protect the supposed illegality.
“In these interactions, agents generally do not have prior information about the individual and no order of any kind,” according to the demand. “If the agents make an arrest, contrary to the federal law, they do not determine whether a person presents a flight risk before an order of order can be obtained. Also to the federal law, the agents do not identify or explain why the individual is being arrested.”
