On Jan. 2, raids were conducted in Georgia, North Carolina and Texas on families who were granted temporary reprieve from deportation. At least 12 families are still being held in detention centers

The incident may provide more examples of government mistreatment or inaction initially alleged in a class-action lawsuit filed in June against the DHS alleging the U.S. Border Patrol allowed inhumane conditions to persist at detention centers...

...New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez, the only Latino Democrat in the Senate, previously said federal raids were "harsh tactics," adding that the raids target undocumented immigrants "whose only mistake was to escape a certain death in their native countries."

"Furthermore, I have deep concerns of the chilling effect these home raids will have among immigrant communities who will understandably be terrified and deterred from approaching law enforcement to report crimes and forced further into the shadows," Menendez told POLITICO. "As we begin to get more details on these operations, let's not overlook the devastating effect and cost to spending our limited DHS funds on deporting women and children and not violent felons."

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