A scathing ACLU lawsuit accuses federal immigration officials of carrying out a racial profiling campaign of “massive scale” as part of the ongoing Trump administration crackdown on Minnesota, comparing Homeland Security agents’ tactics to actions from a police state.
The class-action suit, filed Thursday in federal court, accuses agencies like DHS, ICE and the Border Patrol of “violently stopping and arresting countless Minnesotans based on nothing more than their race and perceived ethnicity irrespective of their citizenship or immigration status,” with a pointed emphasis on “Somali and Latino people, who are being targeted for stops and arrests based on racial profiling motivated by prejudice.”
