U.S. Border Patrol Profiling Minorities In Spokane, Lawsuit Says [View all]
SPOKANE, WA — A Washington man who was stopped by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) at a Spokane Greyhound bus stop is suing the agency for illegally detaining him. The suit comes about two months after Portland comedian Mohanad Elshieky filed a complaint against the agency for the same type of activity.
The Northeast Immigrants Rights Project (NWIRP) says that Border Patrol has been using the Spokane bus stop as a hub for arrests and detentions based off of racial profiling.
In July 2017, Andres Sosa Segura was traveling from Montana back to Washington when Border Patrol agents detained him at the Spokane Intermodal Center in the downtown area. Sosa claims that the agents singled him out because he was the only Latino on the bus.
"[Sosa] was unlawfully restrained and detained for hours when United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents singled him out based on his Latino appearance while he was changing buses at the Spokane Intermodal Center in July 2017," the lawsuit says.
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