The lawyers announced on Tuesday that they filed a damage claim of $ 1 million against the Trump administration claiming that the recent arrest of a 15 -year -old boy out of the Arleta high school amounted to the “unconstitutional racial profile” of an American citizen.
The claim, presented on Monday in accordance with the documents provided by the lawyers, cited “the conduct of ice agents and the border patrol agents that caused the false arrest, the false imprisonment, the assault, the assault, [and] Battery ”of the child on August 11.
The Trump administration denied any irregularity on Tuesday, while recognizing an instance of wrong identity.
A claim gives a government entity the opportunity to evaluate and compensate for the alleged victims. If a claim is denied, the parties have the option of looking for litigation. The claim was filed with the United States National Security Department, the United States Border Patrol, Customs and Border Protection of the United States and the Immigration and Customs Control of the United States.
According to the school district officials, federal agents attracted weapons to the child, who is a student with disabilities, and handcuffed him before his mother persuaded the agents that his son was not the individual they were looking for.
The boy had been sitting in a car on the outskirts of Arleta High while his sister was recorded for school. The child is a student at San Fernando High School.
“Ice agents and border patrol agents falsely affirmed that [the student] He was suspicious of a crime, “said the letter of presentation, which was signed by lawyer Luis A. Carrillo.” However, this was false and the border and false and border patrol agents. [the student] While he was simply sitting his car waiting for his relative. [The student] He is a young man of severe special needs who was not the suspect of a crime. ”
Although he recognized an error, the US National Security Department denied attacking a school and also denied the racial profile.
“The accusations that the border patrol attacked the Arletaria High School high school,” said the department statement. “The agents were carrying out a specific operation in [a] illegal criminal foreigner. “
“What makes someone an objective for the application of immigration is whether it is illegally in the US, not their skin color, race or ethnicity,” said the statement. “The brave men and women in the United States are eliminating the murderers, gang members of MS-13, pedophiles, rapists, really the worst of the worst of Golden State communities.”
The officials added: “This is a case study of the billboard lawyers trying to convert the family resemblance into the racial mood to collect clicks, influence and effective.”
The department also praised the mother for being a cooperative in an investigation that led to arrest, later that same day, of the child's cousin, an unauthorized immigrant who, according to the department, had a conviction for crime under 2021 for carrying a hidden weapon.
By discussing the Arleta High incident, the Schools Supt. Alberto Carvalho talked about what he learned from the family, school administrators and reviewing the video at a recent press conference.
“People with weapons approached the vehicle, they told them to leave,” Carvalho said in Gardena High on August 14. This is a child with disabilities that, as a result of their disabilities, has difficulty decoding, communicating, understanding. It was placed handcuffed. Mom protested and said: 'You have the wrong person.' Finally, the officers realized that, in fact, this was a case of wrong identity. “
Carvalho added: “What I find absolutely representable beyond this meeting, beyond this meeting, is the fact that before the officers left, and the mother told me this … the most insulting thing, the most disturbing thing, before the officers left, they told this 15 -year -old boy with disabilities that” at least you would have an exciting story to tell their friends in the first day of the school. “
“There is nothing exciting in being handcuffed in front of your mother in front of high school,” said Carvalho. “There is nothing exciting. In fact, this is child abuse, so we are also working with that mother … he was released, but the trauma in his mind has not been released. I talked to the mother. He cries. He is upset. He is depressed. Why will he do something to me again? And the question that the mother cannot answer, and certainly cannot answer, when he asks:”
Federal officials have said that no place is outside the limits, including schools, since they press to achieve the objective of President Trump of 1 million deportations per year.
Immigration agents tried to enter two primary schools in Los Angeles in April, but the directors rejected them. The Arleta High incident renewed the concerns because they happened on the perimeter of the campus. Federal agents also recently arrested on August 8, a last year 18 -year -old student, while walking through the family's dog near his home from Van Nuys.
Federal officials have defended the arrest, and continuous detention, of the student of Reeda High, Benjamin Guerrero-Cruz, as appropriate because they say it is in the country illegally.
National Security has also provided previous statements about the Arleta High incident.
“The mother of the 15-year-old, who is a cousin with the alleged member of the MS-13 gang, was at the scene and worked with the border patrol,” said a statement. “The mother informed the border patrol that they often get confused for each other. She helped give the border patrol the information to help him apprehend him later in the day.”
“Once again, our agents who keep the streets and the US tax payer safe from criminals and we will continue to do so until the mission is carried out,” said the head of the US border patrol sector. Uu. Gregory Bovino in a publication on social networks.
“This illegal foreigner of El Salvador was arrested in Pacoima, California,” Bovino published on social networks about the child's cousin. “Not only was it illegally in the United States, but it also has a minor crime in 2021 for” taking a hidden weapon to the person. “It is also suspected that he is a member of the MS-13 street gang,” Bovina published on social networks.
The member of the Kelly Goz School Board, who represents the Arleta High area, said the officers acted incorrectly.
“Such actions, which violently stop a child on the outskirts of a public school, are absolutely representable and should not take place in our country,” Goadz said in a publication on social networks.
