American Civil Liberties Union affiliates across the country said they filed 30 claims this week seeking damages for the wrongdoing of federal agents involved in immigration enforcement. The claims include allegations of abuses in immigration detention, attacks against people exercising First Amendment rights, racial profiling and unlawful arrests of U.S. citizens and immigrants. The ACLU said it seeks to hold federal immigration agents accountable via the Federal Torts Claim Act, a 1946 statute that allows people to get compensation for federal employees’ misconduct. Immigration agents twice stopped and detained Aceituno, a U.S. citizen, on Nov. 15 in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to a notice of the claims sent to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. Agitators who obstruct or assault federal law enforcement officers will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” the spokesperson said in an email.