Criminal
Dec. 17, 2013
Civil rights groups challenge immigrant detention practices
The prospective class action argues that detained immigrants should be permitted to go before an immigration judge to request release from custody while they fight their deportation cases.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Civil rights lawyers filed suit Thursday in a challenge to the government's practice of detaining certain immigrants without allowing them a bond hearing.
The prospective class action, filed in federal court by the Asian Americans Advancing Justice's Asian Law Caucus, the ACLU of Northern California and Keker & Van Nest LLP, argues that the detained immigrants should be permitted to go ...
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