
The United Farm Workers and five Kern County residents have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and U.S. Border Patrol, alleging that a three-day raid in California's San Joaquin Valley in January led to unconstitutional arrests and coercive expulsions.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in the Eastern District of California, seeks class-action relief and claims that Border Patrol agents conducted "lawless sweeps, indiscriminate arrests, and coercive expulsions."