Two people detained Friday, July 3, near Eugene by immigration enforcement officers were targeted solely because of their race and ethnicity, according to legal petitions seeking their release.
Officers made the immigration arrests “as part of a widespread enforcement sweep that targets noncitizens going about their daily life around Eugene and the surrounding areas,” state the petitions filed in U.S. District Court in Eugene.
The court documents filed on behalf of the two detainees — each listed as Lane County residents, with few other details provided — do not aim to resolve the detainees’ immigration status, but instead question whether their being kept in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody is legally justified…