US-born Leo Garcia Venegas says ‘I just want to work in peace’ after agents in Alabama said his ID card was fake
An Alabama construction worker and US citizen who says he was detained twice by immigration agents within just a few weeks has filed a lawsuit in federal court demanding an end to Trump administration workplace raids targeting industries with large immigrant workforces.
The class-action lawsuit, filed on Tuesday by Leo Garcia Venegas, a concrete worker, demands an end to what the firm calls “unconstitutional and illegal immigration enforcement tactics”.
Venegas, who was born in the US, lives and works in Baldwin county, Alabama, a Gulf coast area between the cities of Mobile and Pensacola, Florida, that has seen immense population growth in the last 15 years, and which offers plenty of construction work.
Well, clearly somebody needs to try looking “more American”, then. /s
Unfortunately the supreme court said they can arrest based on race.
Technically, that was in a concurring opinion, so it’s not actually a precedent and lower courts are free to ignore it. But it’s also clear that the Supreme Court will kill this case if it gets to them, they’ll just do it on the shadow docket with virtually no explanation beyond a single paragraph citing a (dubious) procedural issue.
Guys, gals, and non-binary pals, I present to you the Kavanaugh Stop:
Moreover, as for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U. S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.
After having already released someone before, shouldn’t they put something like “innocent, has documentation” on his file, even if only to save their nearly unlimited funding? Oh wait, they’re racists that just want to terrorize people with a slightly different level of melanin.
On his file
Bold of you to assume they are literate
You make a very valid point. Very valid indeed.
They could implement some sort of identifier, maybe a star or something you wear on your sleeve.
That’s a great idea, but it would have to stand out on their work uniforms.
Best to make it a bright color, like yellow or gold.
Let’s choose gold and maybe turn it into a card. You could put it in your wallet.
You know what?! Let’s sell it to make a profit as well.
They’re not running IDs, or looking people up tho.
They’re grabbing brown people and throwing them in a hole for weeks/months then maybe try to identify them.
Good point. It almost seems like they’re trying to start as many lawsuits as possible, but the results can only really go in their direction.
His lawyers from the Institute for Justice are currently looking for any other U.S. Citizens who have been detained or questioned by ICE while working.
If this has happened to you or someone you know, please share your story through the linked form. Your experiences can make a real difference.
English: https://ij.org/case-intake/government-raids-on-construction-sites/
Español: https://ij.org/case-intake/redadas-gubernamentales-en-sitios-de-construccion/
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Hi everyone,
I work with the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit law firm, and we’re representing Leo Garcia Venegas (shown in the video below).
Leo, a U.S. citizen, was detained by federal agents twice while working on a construction site in Alabama. Both times, he showed valid ID — and both times, agents ignored it. These warrantless raids on private property violate the Fourth Amendment, and Leo is now suing.
We’re looking for other U.S. citizens (or people who know them) who’ve been detained or questioned by ICE while working.
If this has happened to you or someone you know, please share your story through the linked form. Your experiences can make a real difference.
English: https://ij.org/case-intake/government-raids-on-construction-sites/
Español: https://ij.org/case-intake/redadas-gubernamentales-en-sitios-de-construccion/
*We treat all information submitted through this form as confidential and will use it only for the purpose of evaluating the request for representation. Submitting the information does not mean that we have agreed to represent you or that we will represent you.*
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Literally the family guy color testing
Oh how we chuckled at the idea of an absurd racist police state.
