In early January, the days of the Biden administration were injured and the Trump era lumbled, five dozen border petrol agents were mainly deployed to the Latino Carn County, which is about 300 miles away The California-Mexico border, and what they say was a targeted invention for criminal immigrants.
But some of the lawyers who became the subject of their strategy that week, said that it was a “fishing campaign” targeting people of certain skin, regardless of citizenship and status. In one February 26They claimed that agents abused their power, arrested without warrants and used fraud to make people agree to leave the country. They said that these actions shake the field.
“They stopped us because we look like Latino or Farm Workers because of the color of our skin. It was inappropriate, “Maria Guadalupe Hernandez Aspinoza, 46, a grandmother, Said in a statement.
The ACLU said in its complaint that Hernandez Aspinoza, arrested on January 7 after working at the tomato greenhouse, was one of the 40 people, who were removed from the country under the voluntary departure, the ACLU said in its complaint.
On January 8, agents say US citizens and 20 -year -old bakersfield, California, resident, lawsuit. The complaint added that when agents blocked their trucks, cut off their tires, pulled a passenger from the truck and arrested him when he was on his way to the garden. According to a lawsuit filed by United Farm Workers and five others, they accused Campos Guterez of smuggling alien and arrested him for four hours. He was not deported.
“This was a fishing campaign,” Brai Bernawanjar told NBC News, “This was a fishing campaign, and used to use any special people, and used to turn into a community.”
On the same day, border petrol agents dragged legal permanent resident Yolanda Augulera Martinez, “for a clear reason” legal permanent resident. Augulera Martinez, a resident of 45 -year -old Kern County, showed her California driver’s license. Border petrol claims to have been out of the car, threw his mother and grandmother on the ground, handed over and arrested him.
When she was laid behind the SUV, an agent allowed her to call her to send a photo of her legal residency card. After he scanned him, he told her that according to the lawsuit, “Get F-from here.”
Arrested was 300 miles removed from the California-Mexico border, claimed by border petrol beyond 100 air miles from the border The zone where he can search for a warrantless.
The Los Angeles Times quoted three former Baiden administrative officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, reported last week that El Centro Sector Border Petrol Chief Agent Gregory Bovino “Gone thug” with operation And it did without high-ups’ jnowledge.
NBC News reached customs and border protection, which includes border patrols, to ask about allegations. In the email feedback thanks to the spokesman of Homeland Security, the border petrol enforcement actions are “very targeted.”
The spokesperson also said, “When we find an alleged or potential misconduct, we immediately refer to it for investigation and fully cooperate with any criminal or administrative investigation.”
The statement did not mention the allegations of the lawsuit as to whether the role of Bovino is under investigation in the arrest. CBP spokesperson Jem Ruiz said the agency did not comment on the remaining lawsuit.
Bovino arrested in Cairn County On social media. Their posts publish people arrested in a criminal background and contain one that is border patrol agents in that jurisdiction, known as the field, “Go extra mile – or 500 of them …,“Reference to the reach of his jurisdiction.
In a statement last monthBovino said the responsibility of the field extends from the border to the “Oregon Line.”
Central Valley shook ‘core’
Border patrol states that 60 agents arrested 78 people-all were present illegally in the US-in a three-day operation on January. Those arrested involved someone guilty of raping an 8 -year -old girl and wanted a child on a Warrant Runt for sexual offense against a child. Other offenses include weapons charges, marijuana or other drugs and drunk driving faults, the agency said.
But the attorney said the arrest had had a widespread impact, including their customers, some of whom had no criminal belief and were expelled. Attornies referring to the region of California, the attorney said the actions of agents “shaken the middle valley at its root.”
Attorney of Care, Van Nest and Peters LLP, Ajay Krishnan said, “There are high levels of trauma. There are people who were detained, Al Centro were sent and then removed from the country – for whom they were responsible for,” Kaker, Van, and Peters.
The plaintiff is also being introduced by the American Civil Liberties Foundations of Northern California, Southern California and San Diego and the royal counties.
A person can agree with “voluntary departure”, signing the appropriate documents. By doing so, the person avoids the deportation order and preserves the possibility of legally re -entering the country at future.
But the person without legal status and other factors in the US. Based on how long they were, it also risks applying for legal re -admission for many years.
In some cases, a lawsuit is alleged, agents asked to sign electronic pads without allowing people to see the document, willing them voluntarily the U.S. Telling about the potential consequences of leaving failed, or the document was not shown or read in their language. In some cases, according to the plaintiff, agents told people that they were signing for any other purpose or forced them to sign with prison threats or by seducing and separating them.
Juan Classes Mendez, a 20 -year -old resident of Cern County, who has a U.S. Married to a citizen and there is no criminal history, it was among the deported people. 37 -year -old Vasas Mandez was arrested when he worked for 10 years from a livestock. According to the lawsuit, the agents had taken a nasal spray that helped him to breathe when he arrived at the El Centro holding facility, and he was voluntarily signed to leave the country.
Agents have been accused of violating the plaintiff’s fourth reforms in the lawsuit that the person is illegally in the country and protects from detention without a reasonable suspicion of arrest without warrant.
“A person’s alleged race, ethnic background or business cannot justify any imminent stop. That no one can refuse to answer voluntary questions, “the lawsuit states.
The lawsuit also alleges that the agents have violated the defense of the fifth reform. The lawyers said in the lawsuit that the agents were arrested or detained by “voluntary departure” until those people intentionally and voluntarily forgive their right to hear the immigration hearing.
“When Mrs. Hernandez left Aspinoza in Mexically in Border Patrol, an agent gave a copy of the document signed a day ago,” the lawsuit said. “Mrs. Hernandez Espinoza found her signature on her signature document to agree to a voluntary departure.”
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