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Nearly five years after federal agents stormed a Tennessee meatpacking plant and arrested over 100 Latino workers, U.S. government agencies agreed to pay nearly $1.2 million in damages to settle a class action accusing the officers of targeting the employees on the basis of their ethnicity and using excessive force. Lead attorneys for the plaintiffs broke down the case for Law360.

A federal judge has approved a settlement of more than $1 million in a class action lawsuit that challenged a federal immigration raid at an eastern Tennessee meatpacking plant where about 100 people were arrested

Some 100 people were arrested at a Tennessee meatpacking plant in 2018.

A federal judge approved a $1 million settlement in a lawsuit over a federal immigration raid at a Tennessee meatpacking plant. During the raid nearly 100 people were arrested.

The April 2018 raid on the Southeastern Provision slaughterhouse in Bean Station upended the lives of nearly 100 workers.

Nearly 100 immigrants who were rounded up during a 2018 raid at a meat-processing plant in Tennessee have reached a $1.17 million settlement against the U.S. government and federal agents, who they said used racial profiling and excessive force during the operation, stepping on a person’s neck and punching another in the face.

Roughly 100 immigrants reached a $1.17 million settlement with the U.S. government over racial profiling & excessive force in a Tennessee plant raid from 2018.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – A federal judge has approved a settlement of more than $1 million in a class action lawsuit that challenged a federal immigration raid at an eastern Tennessee

The workers accused the government of racial profiling and excessive force. The agreement is very likely the first class settlement over an immigration enforcement operation at a work site, experts say.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge has approved a settlement of more than $1 million in a class action lawsuit that challenged a federal immigration raid at an eastern Tennessee...