An Alabama construction worker who says he was detained twice by federal immigration agents despite being a U.S. citizen has filed a class-action lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's workplace raid policies but the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) dismissed the case as "race-baiting opportunism."
The suit was filed Tuesday in federal court by Leo Garcia Venegas, a concrete worker from Baldwin County, Alabama, with support from the public interest law firm Institute for Justice. Venegas, who was born in Florida, alleges that immigration agents detained him at two separate construction sites in May and June even after he presented a valid Alabama-issued REAL ID.
