EL PASO — A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction banning Otero County NM sheriff’s deputies from making unlawful stops, intimidation and other unlawful actions targeting undocumented immigrants in Chaparral NM.
The decision was issued Friday by Chief U.S. District Judge Martha Vázquez of the New Mexico district.
The ruling was a victory for the Border Network for Human Rights represented by the Paso del Norte Civil Rights Project, which filed a lawsuit in October alleging civil rights violations committed by deputies in the semi-rural community north of El Paso. The injunction was requested in March.
“This is an important victory so the community won’t have fear,” said Martina Morales, a Southern New Mexico member of the Border Network for Human Rights. “I think it gives (residents) a lot of confidence to keep reporting abuses and what is happening in the community.”
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