DC residents file class action against ICE for ‘arbitrary’ arrests

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Several Washington, D.C., residents have filed a class action lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and Trump administration officials for allegedly making indiscriminate “warrantless immigration arrests without probable cause” throughout the city.

“Over the past month and a half, plain-clothed, masked, and armed federal agents have flooded the streets of the nation’s capital, indiscriminately arresting without warrants and without probable cause District residents whom the agents perceive to be Latino,” attorneys for the plaintiffs wrote in the complaint.

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