The Legal Aid Justice Center is filing a lawsuit on behalf of two Virginia men who were taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as "collateral arrests." Essentially, "collateral arrests" are when ICE goes to arrest somebody they have grounds to detain, but also grabs unrelated parties suspected of being undocumented immigrants. Because the suspicion isn't based on any knowledge about these unrelated parties, just their ethnicity and proximity to an ICE investigation, this tactic is just racial profiling by another name.
Under Trump, arrest of immigrants with no criminal records has more than doubled, partially because of "collateral arrests."
Read the Washington Post article here.
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