A group of immigrants filed a class-action lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, the Justice Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, seeking to stop arrests at immigration courthouses, a tactic that has become increasingly popular as the Trump administration continues trying to achieve its mass deportation goals.
The lawsuit was filed by Democracy Forward and three other legal organizations on behalf of 12 immigrants. The motion says that the arrests of thousands of people at immigration courthouses— many of whom are showing up for their routine immigration checkups— have stripped them of rights afforded to them under U.S. immigration law and the Fifth Amendment, The Associated Press reported.
