LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- More than three months since the federal government began deploying unprecedented, aggressive, and violent tactics to conduct immigration sweeps and arrests, a group of community members and leaders is now appealing to the United Nations.

"People have already been killed while this is going on," said labor and human rights activist Dolores Huerta.

"We stand for community leaders and for families who despite personal risk are coming forward to share painful accounts," said Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles).

Among those sharing their personal accounts, Cary Lopez Alvarado, a US citizen who was pregnant and near her delivery date when she was taken into immigration custody.

"I had cuts and bruises and both my hands and my feet were purple," said Lopez Alvarado, add

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