Fitton: Illegal Aliens Arrested in Workplace Raid Sue Over ‘Rights’
March 4, 2019
Tom Fitton
It’s hard for people who obey and respect the law to keep their heads from exploding in the face of affronts to common sense and the rule of law. Judicial Watch’s Corruption Chronicles blog explains the latest abuse of the system:
Represented by an extremist nonprofit that lists conservative organizations on a catalogue of “hate groups,†seven illegal immigrants detained in a workplace raid are suing the federal agents that arrested them, claiming that they were racially profiled for being Latino. In a federal court complaint filed this week by their pro bono attorneys at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the illegal aliens assert that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents violated their Constitutional rights against illegal seizures and to equal protection under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
The raid occurred last spring at a slaughterhouse and meatpacking plant in a small rural town called Bean Station in east Tennessee. Agents from ICE and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) raided the facility as part of a lengthy investigation into the owner’s multi-million-dollar tax evasion and fraud scheme. About 100 illegal aliens were arrested, most of them from Guatemala and Mexico and some had been previously deported from the U.S. more than once. At least 54 people were deported immediately, some were released and others faced federal or state charges, according to a local news report following the seize.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...e-over-rights/
