An Alabama construction worker and U.S. citizen who was detained twice by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers within weeks has filed a federal lawsuit in an attempt to stop the Trump administration from executing raids targeting immigrants at the workplace.

Leo Garcia Venegas, a concrete worker, filed the class action lawsuit on Wednesday, demanding an end to what legal documents allege are “unconstitutional and illegal immigration enforcement tactics.”

Venegas, who was born in the U.S and lives in Baldwin County, Alabama, claims in the lawsuit that he and others who live in the area have been targeted as a result of their heritage.

“The officers rarely (if ever) have reasonable suspicion to suspect that the people working on or managing a particular construction site

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