New York City has agreed to pay $92.5 million in a class-action lawsuit that accused the city of keeping migrants detained in city jails beyond their scheduled release, some for weeks at time, to allow federal immigration enforcement officers to take the migrants into custody and begin deportation proceedings.
The plaintiffs, who filed the lawsuit over a decade ago, argued that the city unlawfully detained more than 20,000 people after their scheduled release dates between 1997 and 2012, after receiving requests from ICE to temporarily hold them, according to The New York Times.
