Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Suit alleges U.S. violates rights of immigrant detainees

By Emile Schepers, People's World
June 15 2015

An important class action suit was filed in United States District Court for the District of Arizona last week alleging that U.S. Customs and Border Enforcement (CBP) officials have been massively violating the constitutional and human rights of detainees in Border Patrol lockups in the Tucson, Arizona sector of their operations.

The suit, filed by three specific plaintiffs as representative of a class of at least 75 and potentially tens of thousands, was filed by attorneys for the law firm of Morrison and Foerster LLP, the National Immigration Law Center, the American Immigration Council, the American Civil Liberties Council of Arizona, and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.[...]

Read the full article:
http://peoplesworld.org/suit-on-violation-of-constitutional-and-human-rights-of-detained-immigrants/

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