Latino New Yorkers file sweeping class action against Trump over 'race-based' ICE arrests

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Courthouse News Service

April 9, 2026


BROOKLYN (CN) — A batch of Latino New Yorkers has filed a class action against the Trump administration amid its ongoing and heightened deportation campaign with hopes of stopping “race-based” and “warrantless” arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In a 96-page complaint, filed Wednesday in the Eastern District of New York, the plaintiffs claim the government’s recent boundary-pushing immigration enforcement “is terrorizing New York communities and tearing families apart.”

“Across the state, roving bands of masked and heavily armed federal agents, both on foot and in unmarked cars, are indiscriminately stopping and arresting thousands of Black and Brown people, the vast majority of whom are Latino, based solely on their perceived race and ethnicity,” they argue.

The eight plaintiffs are each Latino New Yorkers who claim they were unlawfully stopped, arrested and subsequently released by federal immigration agents in the state. They range from 19 to 63 years old, with some spending as little as a day to as much as two months in ICE custody before getting released. All of them claim that, because of their ethnicity, they fear being rearrested by immigration officers.

“Targeted communities are living under a state of siege,” the plaintiffs argue. “Throughout New York state, from Buffalo to New York City and Long Island, federal agents are seizing people outside their homes, on their way to work, while driving their children to school and in the parking lots of stores. The widespread targeting of people going about their daily lives has led many to limit their activities out of fear that they will be next.”

Read more: https://courthousenews.com/latino-new-yorkers-file-sweeping-class-action-against-trump-over-race-based-ice-arrests/

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Link to SUIT (PDF) - https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/class-action-new-york-ice-warrantless-arrests.pdf

(as a side note - when black people were accosted daily with "Stop and Frisk", notably in NYC, it got a yawn, but now other groups are experiencing what it's like to be racially profiled, tracked and hunted, and often arrested on bogus charges or executed on the spot based on lies like "he was reaching into his waistband" or "he wasn't 'complying'", while face down on the ground handcuffed, with 3 cops kneeling on him)

[twodogsbarking]

1. Hopefully there will be many more of such actions.

[Martin68]

2. Yes. The more jurisdictions where suits are brought, the better.

[twodogsbarking]

3. I think those in charge have admitted to racial profiling. Will be thousands of pages attempting to prove otherwise.

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I can already smell the bullshit.

[ffr]

4. Latinos are one demographic that puzzles the hell out of me. I cannot see them and not also see the leopards eating

your face segment of the population.


You love tRump? Wow! What's not to love???

[wnylib]

5. Time for NYers to copy Minneapolis.

Whistle warnings. Grocery shopping. Driving them to jobs and schools.

I can't think of another city in the US that is more diverse than NYC. Anyone there could become an ICE target.

I hope that NYC pulls together for each other like Minneapolis did.

Buffalo, too.

And why haven't we NYers heard from Hochul on this?

[BumRushDaShow]

6. I'm gonna guess that this is working its way through your state legislature (from Jan. 30, 2026)

Keeping New Yorkers Safe: Governor Hochul Introduces the Local Cops, Local Crimes Act to Stop ICE from Co-Opting Local Law Enforcement

[wnylib]

7. It better move faster if ICE is here now.

Meantime, Hochul could speak to the general public.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. She's up for election again this year

so I expect she is calibrating her messaging - at least until the election is over.

[wnylib]

9. She might want to consider in her calculations

the fact that the cities being targeted by ICE are the liberal ones that make NY a liberal state.

The rest of NY is very red. It is the blue cities that elect Dem governors and Senators here.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. At least for NYC, she may be deferring to Mamdani to handle

The other big cities in the state haven't had much national press like a Minneapolis, Chicago, Portland, or LA, where the protests have actually been the events that generated the most ICE violence.

There was a time in the past where blue city Philly basically overwhelmed the state along with Pittsburgh to elect (D) Presidents. Then the rural red voters woke up.

[AZProgressive]

11. One of the reasons why I was against Bloomberg when he ran for President

or was never fooled by Giuliani is because of the "stop and frisk" which is also "unconstitutional policing." Terry stops are legal in limited circumstances though I think the Supreme Court expanded what is legal when it comes to Terry stops but the way it was expanded under Giuliani and Bloomberg as well as Eric Adams bringing it back was ineffective at best as over 90% of the people stopped and frisked had nothing on them. Unconstitutional at worst.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. "the way it was expanded under Giuliani and Bloomberg as well as Eric Adams bringing it back was ineffective at best"

Nutjob mayor Michael Nutter was also a big promoter of "Stop and Frisk" here in Philly. Pure targeted harassment of usually innocent people.

[Dan]

12. I suspected years ago when it was identified that Latinos would become the largest minority group in America

That America would turn it's policing actions against them.