By Julia Marnin, The Sacramento Bee

The Department of Homeland Security says immigration officers are arresting accused criminals, the “ worst of the worst .” But a federal lawsuit argues authorities are regularly jailing and deporting immigrants who are survivors of human trafficking, domestic abuse and other crimes.

The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles federal court on Oct. 14 says that a new U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement policy disregards legal protections previously established by Congress to protect immigrant crime survivors and allows ICE to detain and deport them even when they have been granted formal permission to stay in the U.S.

ICE is also targeting immigrant crime survivors who have pending applications for protections, according to a 76-page complaint.

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