Overview
- Lawyers for Civil Rights filed a Federal Tort Claims Act complaint Wednesday on behalf of seven Allston Car Wash workers detained in a Nov. 4, 2025 ICE operation.
- The filing says about 20 vehicles and roughly 20 officers arrived with masks, vests, and visible guns and detained workers without asking who they were or who agents sought.
- The complaint says Agent Jhon Coleman showed managers an I-9 records subpoena while other agents were already making arrests and that some detainees with legal status were not allowed to show documents.
- The workers describe tight restraints, crowded holding cells with only aluminum blankets, transfers to jails in Massachusetts, Vermont, and Texas, and delays in vital medications that left one woman with dangerous blood sugar levels.
- ICE and DHS did not comment, and under the FTCA the government has up to six months to respond before the claimants can sue in federal court, a step that could spotlight workplace raid tactics and detainee care.