A U.S. citizen and Army veteran who was detained by federal immigration authorities for three days last summer in Southern California filed a civil rights suit against the US government Wednesday. KQED politics correspondent Marisa Lagos reports.

A U.S. citizen and Army veteran who was detained by federal immigration authorities for three days last summer in Southern California filed a civil rights suit against the US government Wednesday. KQED politics correspondent Marisa Lagos reports.

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