US EditionACLU files class action lawsuit, alleging civil rights abuses and agressive force in Wilder immigration Raid
The lawsuit alleges civil rights violations including mass detention of about 400 people, excessive force, racial profiling, and coercive immigration interrogations during the raid.
- On Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Idaho filed a class-action lawsuit against federal, state and local law enforcement after an Oct. 19 raid at La Catedral racetrack, Wilder, Idaho involving more than 200 officers.
- Tied to an investigation into alleged illegal gambling, DHS said ICE helped dismantle an illegal enterprise, arresting more than 105 and taking five into custody soon after arrival.
- The suit describes officers using flash‑bang grenades and rubber bullets, zip‑tying parents and children at gunpoint, and detaining about 400 people for four hours without food or water.
- Most detainees were later released, but the lawsuit says no one was freed without verification of lawful presence, and the suit names ICE, the FBI, and Idaho State Police, with the FBI declining to comment Wednesday.
- ACLU leaders said the raid caused `less than human` treatment, with Juana Rodriguez recalling her 3-year-old son crying and calling it a `nightmare`.
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Lawsuit following Wilder ICE raid alleges racial profiling, local police involvement
A potential class-action lawsuit has emerged from some of the 400 individuals detained at a Wilder horse racing track in October, with plaintiffs arguing that the operation was an overreach of power that utilized racial profiling.
Three Idaho families who are U.S. citizens and permanent legal residents are suing after they and hundreds of others were detained for hours during an aggressive immigration raid on a rural horse racetrack last year. Families say state and federal law enforcement agencies conspired to use unconstitutional and illegal tactics during the raid, including detaining people because they seemed to be Latino; keeping adults and some children with flange…
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ACLU files class action lawsuit, alleging civil rights abuses and agressive force in Wilder immigration Raid
BOISE, Idaho (KIFI) — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a class action lawsuit following the controversial immigration raid in Wilder, Idaho, last year. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of three Latino families who are U.S. citizens or lawful residents, alleges that authorities used excessive force and violated the constitutional rights of hundreds of spectators. According to the ACLU, the lawsuit represents the first major challen…
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