Yale Immigration Clinic Strikes Again!

Yale Law School’s  Immigration Clinic reportedly will file suit today on behalf of ten New Haven residents  against the U.S. government for the alleged violation of constitutional rights during immigration raids in New Haven in June 2007. Federal agents lacked search warrants and allegedly arrested people solely on the basis of race. 

The Clinic contends that the raids were retaliation of the Board of Aldermen’s approval two days earlier of the Elm City Resident Card, an ID card provided to city residents regardless of immigration status.

On June 6, 2007, ICE agents raided eight apartments and homes, detaining 29 New Haven residents; only five were the intended targets of the raids. An immigration judge previously dismissed removal propceedings against some of those arrested, finding that the raid constituted an “egregious” violation of their Fourth Amendment rights. 

KJ