Los Angeles to pay $14 million to immigrants who were illegally detained by police

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Business Insider

Los Angeles County leaders have agreed to pay out a total of $14 million to nearly 19,000 immigrants who were illegally detained by the sheriff's department.

In a class-action lawsuit against the county, lawyers charged that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the nation's largest law enforcement agency, violated the US Constitution by jailing immigrants past their release date, sometimes for months at time, on behalf of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

In 2018, a US federal judge ruled that such immigration detainers, or "ICE holds," were essentially arbitrary arrests.

"Let this settlement be a wake-up call to all those law enforcement agencies around the country that today continue to jail people unlawfully at ICE's warrantless requests," Jennie Pasquarella, director of immigrants' rights at the ACLU of Southern California, said in a statement. "They should stop or be held liable in damages to all the people they've unlawfully detained."

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[Dustlawyer]

1. What has become of our country?

[kiri]

2. $14 million is paid by taxpayers.

These "settlements" cost the perpetrators nothing at all. Their pensions are good; their political positions are unfazed. The cops and LAPD pay nothing. The mayor and city council, et al, pay nothing. $14 million is paid by taxpayers. The money is lost to schools, lost for roads and infrastructure.

I do agree that victims must be compensated. But police unions, cops, politicians should pay 50%.

[oasis]

3. K and R