Twelve immigrants and their legal advocates filed a class-action lawsuit on Wednesday against the Trump administration, alleging that the justice department and the Department of Homeland Security colluded to arrest and deport potentially thousands of people at their immigration hearings.
A coalition of immigrant advocacy groups – including the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Legal Education and Services (Raices), National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), Democracy Forward and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area (LCCRSF) – filed the suit on behalf of 12 plaintiffs, the majority of whom were seeking protection in the US from anti-LGBTQ+ violence or female genital mutilation.
