"...accompanying the... motion for a preliminary injunction were 30 declarations filed in other lawsuits... by US citizens with similar encounters. ‘From LA to Minnesota to New York... we have evidence that immigration officers... [are] refusing to credit... government-issued documents.’"
"The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which endorsed the Right to Record Act, filed a lawsuit in May alleging that a federal police task force in Memphis is systematically retaliating against residents who try to document its activity.”
"The comments raised the eyebrows of Chief U.S. District Judge Anthony Beaverstock. If REAL ID is good enough for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), he asked, why would immigration enforcers not accept it? ‘Help me understand how that makes sense,’ he said."
"Agents detained [Leo] Venegas for a third time, shackling him by the legs and arms, during a traffic stop this March.... In all [three] instances, agents ignored Venegas’ REAL ID, issued by the state of Alabama and identifying him as a U.S. citizen."
"The poll was conducted roughly a month after [Sens. Chuck] Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand broke with the overwhelming majority of their Democratic colleagues in voting against two resolutions aimed at blocking Trump administration sales of 1,000-pound bombs & bulldozers to the Israeli government.”