http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2006/11/01/1101metraid.htmlA civil rights group filed a lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in Atlanta against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in connection with raids in southeast Georgia.
The Southern Poverty Law Center claims in the lawsuit that Immigration and Customs harassed five U.S. citizens of Mexican descent because of their appearance during raids targeting illegal immigrants in early September.
The lawsuit claims federal agents entered and searched private homes without any lawful authority to do so and detained and interrogated people merely because they looked Mexican.
Marie Justeen Mancha, 15, of Reidsville, is one of the plaintiffs. Mancha, who was born in the United States, said immigration agents entered her trailer when she was home alone one morning, preparing for school.
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was holding his gun, that's what scared me the most," she said at a news conference Wednesday. "It looked like he was going to shoot someone."
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