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Article: Immigration crackdown fought in court
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- New Haven Register
- Article date:
- October 29, 2009
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Ten residents picked up in a city raid two years ago by U.S.
immigration officials are suing the federal agents and their
supervisors, seeking damages for alleged illegal home entries and
unlawful arrests.
Filed Wednesday in federal court by members of the Jerome N.
Frank Legal Services Organization at the Yale Law School, the suit
seeks damages for the individuals they contend were subjected to
unconstitutional actions.
Almost two dozen Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials
swept through a predominately Latino neighborhood in the city June
7, 2007, arresting 29 and charging them with being here illegally.
Earlier this year, Hartford Immigration Judge Judge Michael
Straus, who has ...