"Three Silicon Valley professionals, among hundreds of men arrested statewide last week when they showed up at immigration offices to be fingerprinted and photographed as part of a new homeland security program, were released from a San Diego jail for a Christmas Eve family reunion. "

"They were shackled with 10 other Bay Area men and detained in San Diego in what they described as a packed immigration detention center, about 12 men to a cell. The men said that they had slept little during two days at the center, where they were processed and interviewed, but that conditions had improved when they were transferred to a roomier jail."

"It was horrifying," Ziazadeh said Tuesday after he and the other two men landed at Mineta San Jose International Airport. "

They also said the INS officials and prison guards were both rough and rude. Here are some of the details and our thoughts on the class action lawsuit filed against the INS and Justice by groups reresenting the arrestees.