™ Immigration — Federal Judge Denies Class Request for ICE Injunction
By Adam Klasfeld, Kurzban
In February, this blog discussed a settlement of a lawsuit filed against immigration officials after Immigration and Customs Enforcement descended on a number of homes in Connecticut and conducted ICE raids. The government agreed to settle the civil federal litigation in that case for damages, and further agreed to halt deportation proceedings against a number of immigrants. More recently, a federal judge in New York issued a ruling in a lawsuit filed in 2007 by 24 immigrants who say that they were targeted for pre-dawn raids. The immigrants say that ICE agents conducted pre-dawn raids without a warrant or without factoring for immigration status of the targeted individuals. … Continue Reading
