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Three people who observed federal immigration enforcement during the Trump administration\u2019s sometimes-violent surge said in a federal lawsuit filed Friday the Department of Homeland Security illegally recorded them and revoked their status in the department\u2019s trusted traveler programs.<\/p>\n

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The , filed in the Southern District of California, says the administration violated a federal privacy law, administrative law and the First Amendment by targeting people who observed and protested aggressive immigration enforcement, including during the deadly operation in Minneapolis in January.<\/p>\n

The Electronic Privacy Information Center, a legal group that advocates for privacy issues related to technology, is also a plaintiff in the case.<\/p>\n

Amid a nationwide surge of immigration enforcement that has included federal agents shooting and killing protesters, observers and immigrants, opponents \u201cdid what anyone is supposed to do when they disagree with government action: They exercised their First Amendment rights\u201d by assembling, protesting and recording DHS agents\u2019 activity in public, the suit says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn response, DHS decided to record the Americans who were peacefully observing its agents,\u201d the suit says.<\/p>\n

Officers with the DHS agencies Immigration and Customs Protection and Border Patrol killed two observers, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis in incidents 17 days apart in January.<\/p>\n

\u2018Driven home by ICE\u2019<\/h4>\n

ICE and Border Patrol agents used facial recognition technology, license plate readers and other technology to identify protesters and observers. The agents would then use that information in efforts to intimidate and retaliate against protesters, the suit says.<\/p>\n

Federal immigration officers addressed many legal observers by name, despite having never spoken to them. In Minnesota, legal observers tailing DHS agents in a car would commonly be led back to their own home addresses, according to the suit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe experience \u2026 is so widespread that Minnesota residents have coined a term for it: being \u2018driven home by ICE,\u2019\u201d the suit said.<\/p>\n

The practice shows that DHS is no longer following its own 2023 policy on facial recognition, the suit says. The department quietly removed the policy from its website \u2014 omitting it even from a set of archived pages \u2014 during President Donald Trump\u2019s first month back in office, the suit says.<\/p>\n

The complaint argues that amounted to a policy change, which DHS did not conduct through the process agencies must follow under the Administrative Procedure Act.<\/p>\n

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The department also retaliated against protesters and observers by revoking their status in DHS trusted traveler programs TSA Precheck and Global Entry, the suit says.<\/p>\n

Nicole Cleland, a Minnesota woman who is one of the individual plaintiffs in the suit, said Global Entry status was revoked three days after an encounter with a Border Patrol agent whom she was following at a safe distance, according to the suit.<\/p>\n

Chilling rights<\/h4>\n

The suit alleges DHS\u2019 actions have had a chilling effect on First Amendment-protected activity.<\/p>\n

Cleland has stopped observing DHS operations for fear of further retaliation, according to the suit.<\/p>\n

The two other individuals who brought the suit, Jacquelyn Ivey of South Carolina and Anna Walker of California, said they experienced \u201cfear, anxiety and emotional distress\u201d following their interactions with DHS officers.<\/p>\n

The suit also mentions activity in Maine, North Carolina and Chicago.<\/p>\n

DHS response<\/h4>\n

In response to a request to DHS for comment, a spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which administers Global Entry, said trusted traveler status can be denied for \u201cinability to demonstrate low-risk traveler status.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGlobal Entry or other CBP Trusted Traveler Program memberships are not revoked because someone exercises their First Amendment rights,\u201d the spokesperson wrote. \u201cMembership may be denied or revoked for reasons such as criminal activity (including pending charges or warrants), violations of customs or immigration laws, or inability to demonstrate low-risk traveler status.\u201d<\/p>\n

The spokesperson added that travelers whose Global Entry is denied or revoked can ask for additional review. A Global Entry ombudsman provides \u201cadditional oversight\u201d of some cases, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

A denial of Global Entry is not an impediment to travel, they wrote.<\/p>\n

DHS did not respond to questions about its policies for recording or using facial recognition on observers.<\/p>\n

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