The Hill: ACLU sues Homeland Security, Customs over ID check on domestic flight

The Hill: ACLU sues Homeland Security, Customs over ID check on domestic flight by Lydia Wheeler:

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on behalf of nine Delta Airline passengers who were forced to provide identification before de-boarding a domestic flight from San Francisco to New York.

The lawsuit ACLU and Covington & Burling LLP filed Thursday claims the passengers of Flight 1583, which arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport on February 22, were prevented from leaving the plan until they produced identification. 

“Two uniformed CBP officers positioned themselves at the doorway of the airplane, forcing passengers to queue inside and delaying their exit as the CBP officers stopped each passenger, took their identification documents, examined them, and only then permitted them to pass,” ACLU said in the 21-page complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

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