Eighteen Days for Being Latino
A 20-year-old lawfully present in the United States was arrested for being Latino and held for eighteen days in a Minnesota detention cell so cramped he couldn't sit down — an arrest the federal courts have since ruled unlawful.
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A 20-year-old who was lawfully present in the United States was arrested in Minnesota by federal agents for what was, on review, the legally unprotected ground of being Latino. He was held for eighteen days in a detention cell described as too cramped for him to sit down. Federal courts have since ruled the arrest and detention unlawful.
Each element of the sequence — the arrest, the conditions, the duration — became a separately reviewable claim. None of those reviews undid the eighteen days.