Rodriguez, et al. v. Porter, et al.

On October 19, 2025, more than 200 federal, state, and local law enforcement officers descended on the La Catedral arena in Wilder, Idaho, with armored trucks and helicopters and guns drawn, detaining approximately 400 spectators — including U.S. citizens and children — for four hours of detention in inhumane conditions.

Police used a criminal warrant related to alleged unlicensed gambling as a ruse to conduct an immigration raid against Latino people of Mexican ancestry. They had arrest warrants for five people prior to the raid on a charge of unlicensed gambling, but the vast majority of people detained that day were families and children entirely unrelated to the gambling allegations who were simply there to watch the races.

Law enforcement shoved compliant people to the ground, forcibly dragged people out of their cars, shot rubber bullets, and threw flashbang grenades into cars that had people sitting inside. Parents and children were zip-tied at gunpoint, and agents subjected people to hours of violent and degrading treatment.

The ACLU’s lawsuit, brought on behalf of three Latino families who are U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents and a putative class, is the first major challenge in the second Trump administration to ICE tactics that discriminate based on ethnicity.