Oregon attorneys file federal lawsuit on behalf of man wrongfully detained by ICE
Source: Oregon Public Broadcasting
Oregon attorneys Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on behalf of Isidro Andrade-Tafolla, a U.S. citizen who was briefly detained by the agency outside of the Washington County Courthouse in 2017 after being mistaken for someone else.
“Isidro was targeted by ICE agents and racially profiled,” Leland Baxter-Neal, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties of Oregon, said in a press conference Wednesday. “ICE and its agents need to be held accountable for what they did to Isidro and his family.”
Attorneys with the ACLU of Oregon and a law office in Eugene originally filed an administrative complaint with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on behalf of Andrade-Tafolla last year. Now that the agency has processed it, that complaint can finally be filed in federal court, the attorneys said.
Andrade-Tafolla was at the Washington County Courthouse with his wife Renee in September of 2017 where ICE agents were looking for an undocumented man recently charged with driving under the influence, according to previous reporting by OPB.
Read more: https://www.opb.org/article/2020/08/12/oregon-attorneys-file-federal-lawsuit-on-behalf-of-man-wrongfully-detained-by-ice/
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