The civil liberties group says the raids violated the Fourth Amendment, unlawfully targeting people of color regardless of their actual immigration status.

ACLU attorneys filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging the Border Patrol's January raid in Kern County indiscriminately targeted Latino laborers and that the immigrants detained were coerced into signing voluntary deportation agreements.

Farm workers, and all our neighbors in Kern County, should have the right to move, work, and live free from fear,” said UFW President Teresa Romero after the lawsuit was filed.