The suit alleges “Operation Return to Sender” was a “fishing expedition” that indiscriminately targeted scores of residents, including U.S. citizens, through racial profiling.

U.S. green card holder Yolanda Aguilera Martinez, 56, said she was driving to a doctor’s appointment on Jan. 8 in Bakersfield when she was pulled over by a U.S. Border Patrol agent. When she presented her valid driver’s license,

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.