Workers detained in Bean Station ICE raid filing suit, claiming rights violations

Workers detained in Bean Station ICE raid filing suit, claiming rights violations

The Southern Poverty Law Center along with the National Immigration Law Center has filed suit on behalf of all workers who were arrested and detained during the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in April 2018 at a Grainger County slaughterhouse. This is the first lawsuit to be filed challenging the worksite immigration raid under the Trump Administration - alleging ICE agents engaged in racial profiling, illegal searches and arrests; therefore claiming to have violated the Fourth and Fifth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. "What happened in April of last year in East Tennessee was illegal," said Meredith Stewart with the ...

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