Immigrants charge that federal raids were unconstitutional
"Ten immigrants on Thursday charged that warrantless and abusive pre-dawn raids by federal authorities violated their constitutional rights.
The immigrants, in a federal lawsuit, asserted that ranking Homeland Security officials ordered agents to meet arrest quotas but failed to provide proper training or current addresses for people they were seeking.
The lawsuit, which seeks unspecified monetary damages, described eight raids in which agents displayed weapons, sometimes shouted obscenities. In one case, an agent put a gun against a woman's chest and told her to "go back to (her) own country," according to the lawsuit."
JEFFREY GOLD for the Associated Press. [Visit the Seton Hall Law School Center for Social Justice's website on the lawsuit, including links to the pleadings and more.]