A coalition of legal organizations and undocumented immigrants has filed suit in Los Angeles challenging an ICE policy that authorizes the “routine” jailing and deportation of noncitizen survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking, according to court papers obtained Wednesday.

The suit filed Tuesday by the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law and others contends the policy “violates the very legal protections, crafted by Congress and passed with bipartisan support, that were designed to shield vulnerable adults and children from harm.”

The plaintiffs also allege in Los Angeles federal court that ICE “routinely imprisons and deports immigrant survivors who have been formally granted the right to remain in the U.S.” and “regularly deports survivors of trafficking and oth

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