🚨BREAKING: A federal court has largely allowed our case with @splcenter challenging a 2018 workplace raid to proceed. The raid took place at an East Tennessee meat processing plant where federal agents illegally targeted Latinx workers.👇1/6
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In April 2018, dozens of DHS & IRS agents descended on the Tennessee meat processing plant, detaining approx. 100 Latinx workers. This created chaos & deep pain in the lives of these families, forever changing the community. @tnimmigrant has worked to support & empower them. 2/6
The court denied the government's request to dismiss claims alleging the IRS and DHS conspired with the Tennessee highway patrol to violate the immigrant workers’ rights to be free from unconstitutional detention. 3/6
The court also acknowledged the validity of their constitutional claim of discrimination, though dismissed those claims, commenting that the federal judiciary is “a less-than-perfect institution” to address racial discrimination. 4/6
“The court’s decision acknowledges the racism & unconstitutionality of the federal government's conduct during the raid. This is the very sort of racial profiling that immigrant communities have warned is inherent in worksite raids." -NILC Attorney Araceli Martínez-Olguín 5/6
We will continue to work with our plaintiffs to hold the federal government responsible, and to help ensure that worksite raids again become a thing of the past. 6/6
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