Judge won't toss immigration lawsuit

Updated: Saturday, 04 Apr 2009, 3:41 PM EDT
Published : Saturday, 04 Apr 2009, 3:41 PM EDT

Danbury - A federal judge has rejected a motion by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to toss out a lawsuit challenging its roundup of illegal aliens in Danbury.

The lawsuit involves nine of the so-called Danbury 11, a group of day laborers arrested in September 2006. Another plaintiff was stopped by Danbury police after an accident in 2007 and deported.

The lawsuit claims the men's civil rights were violated by racial profiling and the unauthorized enforcement of federal immigration law.

The News-Times of Danbury reported that ICE argued that arrested illegal aliens can't bring a civil rights suit in federal courts.

A decision on the deportation orders for nine men still in Danbury could come next week.



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