Immigration advocates say they are seeing an increase in traffic stops and possible detainments involving federal law enforcement officers on major parkways around the nation’s capital.

Advocacy organization CASA told the News4 I-Team that over the past month, it has received numerous reports of work trucks and vans being stopped along the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, the George Washington Memorial Parkway and the Clara Barton Parkway.

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“The majority of these people who are detained are Black and brown immigrants,” said Alex Vazquez, CASA’s national organizing director. “A lot of the people do work in construction or plumbing, something that would require a white van or work vehicle.”

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