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This lawsuit challenges what they call unconstitutional government tactics that have terrorized immigrant communities, violated constitutional rights, and denied access to legal counsel.

The legal team alleges that the Trump Administration directed a strategy allowing racial profiling, suspicionless stops, warrantless arrests, and denial of access to counsel.

Alvaro Huerta, director of litigation at the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, the largest deportation defense organization in Southern California, states the government is denying detainees their constitutional right to counsel. He describes how individuals are held in deplorable detention conditions and often pressured to sign away their ability to remain in the country without understanding their rights.

Angelica Salas, executive director of CHIRLA, powerfully declares, ?We will fight for our rightful place in this country.? Facing a relentless immigration crackdown in Southern California, immigrant communities are standing strong against detentions, family separations, and dehumanizing treatment.

Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), says immigrants in Southern California are being targeted in what she calls a ?military-style, no-holds-barred? federal immigration enforcement campaign. She warns that hate against immigrants has been unleashed ? and that new federal funding could escalate unconstitutional arrests, detentions, and disappearances.

The owner of Bubble Bath Car Wash in Torrance said he initially thought they were being robbed when masked agents appeared and chased his employees through restricted business areas.

Emily said her uncle was detained and taken by ICE at a Torrance car wash on June 22.

She said he was going to work to support his family when he was detained by ICE on June 17.

Holiday travel has started heating up.

Anni Lai from the Immigrant and Racial Justice Solidarity Clinic at UC Irvine School of Law says the federal government has failed to uphold its constitutional obligations ? and that this lawsuit is about holding them accountable.

New The ACLU of Southern California has filed a major federal lawsuit, accusing the U.S. government of unlawfully targeting communities across Los Angeles and six surrounding counties.

The 4th of July holiday getaway is in full swing.

Two people, including a CHP officer, were hospitalized following a solo-vehicle crash in Culver City.

A CHP cruiser was involved in a horrific crash in Culver City.