Nonprofit legal group Southern Poverty Law Center has taken on a nationwide class action lawsuit against the federal government, claiming on behalf of more than 10,000 undocumented children that the Office of Refugee Resettlement used its policies to ensnare parents and other sponsors into providing fingerprints and other information that was then given to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

According to the lawsuit, the two federal agencies share such information with the intent of discouraging migrants from crossing the Mexican border, not to check the suitability of the sponsors, as was claimed.