Overview
- Seven workers, who filed Federal Tort Claims Act claims Wednesday, accuse DHS and ICE of unlawful arrests during a Nov. 4, 2025 raid at Allston Car Wash.
- The complaint describes a heavily armed sweep, says agents made warrantless arrests without asking questions, and says at least two workers with legal status were still detained.
- Accounts in the filing say detainees were chained in a parking lot, moved without seatbelts, slept on floors under aluminum blankets, and in some cases were denied needed medication.
- Homeland Security called the profiling claims categorically false and said the nine people arrested were in the country illegally and that ICE acted within its legal authority.
- The government has up to six months to respond to the $1 million-per-person claims, which could lead to a lawsuit and scrutiny of workplace raids and far-off transfers that can separate people from lawyers and family.