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US-born Leo Garcia Venegas says ‘I just want to work in peace’ after agents in Alabama said his ID card was fake
An Alabama construction worker and US citizen who says he was detained twice by immigration agents within just a few weeks has filed a lawsuit in federal court demanding an end to Trump administration workplace raids targeting industries with large immigrant workforces.
The class-action lawsuit, filed on Tuesday by Leo Garcia Venegas, a concrete worker, demands an end to what the firm calls “unconstitutional and illegal immigration enforcement tactics”.
Venegas, who was born in the US, lives and works in Baldwin county, Alabama, a Gulf coast area between the cities of Mobile and Pensacola, Florida, that has seen immense population growth in the last 15 years, and which offers plenty of construction work.
After having already released someone before, shouldn’t they put something like “innocent, has documentation” on his file, even if only to save their nearly unlimited funding? Oh wait, they’re racists that just want to terrorize people with a slightly different level of melanin.
They could implement some sort of identifier, maybe a star or something you wear on your sleeve.
That’s a great idea, but it would have to stand out on their work uniforms.
Best to make it a bright color, like yellow or gold.
Let’s choose gold and maybe turn it into a card. You could put it in your wallet.
You know what?! Let’s sell it to make a profit as well.
They’re not running IDs, or looking people up tho.
They’re grabbing brown people and throwing them in a hole for weeks/months then maybe try to identify them.
Good point. It almost seems like they’re trying to start as many lawsuits as possible, but the results can only really go in their direction.
Bold of you to assume they are literate
You make a very valid point. Very valid indeed.