A Detroit federal Court hearing is scheduled for today on motion filed by the ACLU against U-S immigration and customs agents.
They’re trying to keep the U-S from deporting Iraqi’s.
The Michigan chapter of the ACLU has accused agents of coercing Iraqi immigrant detainees into signing forms saying that they want to be deported to Iraq.
The ACLU motion says the immigrants are being pressured to sign the forms because it is becoming clear that the Iraqi government will only accept those detainees who state in writing that they want to return to their home land.
ACLU officials say some of the Iraqi’s signed the forms because they were faced with threats of long-term or life imprisonment.
There are about 14-hundred Iraqi immigrants who have been held since being arrested in nationwide raids last year.
The ACLU is asking at today’s hearing that the agents be stopped from putting any pressure on the detainees.