Greyhound to Pay $2.2 Million to Settle Lawsuit over Immigration Sweeps
“Greyhound will pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by Washington state over the company’s practice of allowing U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents to board and search its buses without warrants, the state attorney general’s office announced Monday. The money will given to passengers,” reports Ivana Saric in Axios.
“After immigration agents performed an immigration sweep on a bus at the Spokane Intermodal Center, as well as to covering some of the litigation costs incurred by the attorney general’s office. Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced the deal just a day before his office’s lawsuit against Greyhound was set to go to trial, per the New York.”
