Lawsuit to be filed over Border Patrol's work in hurricane evacuation process

By Steve Taylor
The Rev. Mike Seifert, priest of San Felipe Community Church in Cameron Park, Brownsville.


SAN JUAN, July 9 - Church and immigrant rights groups in the Rio Grande Valley are to file a lawsuit to force Border Patrol to explain its checkpoint policy in the event of a hurricane evacuation.


Details of the lawsuit, which is being filed by the South Texas Civil Rights Project and Texas RioGrande Legal Aid in federal court in McAllen, will be announced at a news conference later today at La Unión del Pueblo Entero’s meeting hall in San Juan.


The lawsuit is being filed on behalf of LUPE, Proyecto Juan Diego, Proyecto Digna, and San Felipe Community Church in Brownsville.


“We want Border Patrol to give us information about its plans to check immigration documents and its plan to keep checkpoints open during a hurricane evacuation,â€