“When they come to court, arresting people is not a constitutional democracy but a symbol of authoritarian governments.”
Immigrant rights supporters have filed a class action case, challenging the Trump administration’s controversial policy to detain immigrants within the courts.
The case was filed in the federal court earlier this week, according to the American Civil Liberties Union in northern California. In this, class lawyers claim that when the government is present for the hearing of the court, the government is violating the law by detaining immigrants, and sometimes holding them in baseless conditions until later.
In a press release announcing this claim, ACLU notes that the Trump administration’s actions are in the context of modern US governance and immigration policy, to a large extent without example.
The American Civil Liberties Union said in a news release, “For decades, the presidential administration of both sides banned the arrests of civil immigration around the courts and around it to ensure that people can access justice without fear.”
ACLU said, “In January 2025, the Trump administration suddenly recovered these policies without any integrated rational principle. Since then, ice agents have been offensive immediately after immigration hearings, even those who follow asylum claims.” “Lawyers say the exercise forces immigrants to choose the risk of participation in court and take the risk of arresting or losing the court and receiving the deportation order.”
Self -sufficiency alleges that migrants, when holding, are often forced to endure unsafe and serious residential conditions. For example, detainees have reported “urine and urine in the open toilet” in front of each other. Many of the alleged conducting facilities also lack effective climate control, migrants say they are made to “gold on cold metal benches or directly on the floor, sometimes with open toilet”, which has nothing to do with “warmth”.
“When they come to court, arresting people is not a constitutional democracy but a symbol of authoritarian governments,” said Nishap, a lawyer’s committee for the Lawyer’s Committee on Lawyer’s Lawyer’s Committee on Lawyer’s Civil Rights for San Francisco Bay Area.
“It disrupts the basis of our legal system,” Kashyap said.
The class is being represented by San Francisco Bay Area’s civil rights, Northern California’s ACLU, Northern California’s Central American Resource Center, and Cobalts Peach Duffy & Boss LLP’s Private Law Firm’s Committee on Civil Rights Lawyers.
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