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It was a warm May morning, and Leo Garcia Venegas was pouring concrete for the foundation on a new home being built in suburban Alabama, construction work he’s been doing ever since he graduated high school. It suddenly started to rain, so Garcia Venegas quickly grabbed some plastic to cover his handiwork, but he never got the chance to use it. As he was walking back to the freshly poured cement, immigration agents surrounded him , grabbed him, forced his arms behind his back, then pushed him to the ground, according to a new complaint filed on his behalf by the Institute for Justice, a libertarian law firm.

“I’m a citizen!” Garcia Venegas yelled. He was born

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