LULAC Amended Complaint Alleges ICE Detained a Person Beside an Active Santa Maria Ballot Drop Box; Hennepin County Is a Plaintiff

An amended complaint in LULAC v. DHS (D.D.C.), filed 10/07/26, alleges that on October 5, 2026, the first day ballot drop boxes opened in California, ICE detained an individual in a parking lot at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria. The complaint alleges that an adjoining lot in the same parking area serves as an active ballot drop-off location and that voters must pass through the area ICE was operating in order to reach it.

The amended complaint names Hennepin County, Minnesota, alongside the City and County of Denver as plaintiffs that administer elections in their jurisdictions. Democracy Docket reports that Hennepin County says federal investigators working for the Department of Homeland Security have entered election spaces three times in the past five months, and that ICE agents made at least two arrests in the lobby near the current early-voting location, according to the complaint.

The same filing is recorded for its added defendants and the consolidation order at 2026-10-09–alikhan-contemplates-consolidating-lulac-naacp-dscc-polling-place-suits-lulac-amends-to-add-doj-fbi.