Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social‬

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution.

"1.INTRODUCTION
Leonardo Garcia Venegas is an American citizen and construction worker who lives and works in Baldwin County, Alabama. Twice in the past few months, federal immigration officers have raided the non-public areas of private construction sites in this District, without a warrant, and detained Leo simply for being at work. Both times, Leo told the officers he was a citizen and showed them his REAL ID, an identification card issued only to citizens and lawful residents. But the officers still wouldn't let him go.

2. The unlawful raids and detentions that Leo experienced were no accident. The officers were enforcing three policies adopted by the Department of Homeland Security that grant federal immigration officers sweeping search and seizure powers that violate the Fourth Amendment and exceed officers' statutory and regulatory powers. The policies authorize immigration officers to (1) raid the non-public areas of private construction sites without consent or a warrant, (2) preemptively detain workers on those sites without reasonable suspicion that they are undocumented, and (3) continue detaining those workers even after they have produced evidence of their citizenship or lawful presence."

ICE writes a note to itself, conducts a raid, and ignores proof of citizenship. What a country!