A group of people arrested by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Washington, D.C., over the past month have filed a class-action lawsuit, Politico legal reporter Kyle Cheney wrote on social media.
Digging into the individual stories in the case, Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, pointed to the lead plaintiff — a 24-year resident of the U.S. who was snatched by plain-clothed federal agents who didn't even ask him his status.
"He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested," wrote Reichlin-Melnick.
The same thing reportedly happened with the arrest of the workers at the Hyundai plant in Georgia, where nearly 500 workers were taken into custody. Of those workers were American citizens arrested, as well as those under DACA protections and on valid visas.
A New York Times report cited some saying that they were shackled and held for a week in horrific conditions.
"A few dozen workers have started a chat group where they discuss their claims of human rights abuses," the report said.
