Immigration agents arrested a U.S. citizen and created warrants after an arrest, lawyers say in court | Chicago attorneys were in federal court Thursday accusing federal agents of violating immigration law and the constitutional rights of at least 22 people since January

# US citizen arrested and detained by ICE

> The 22 cases include Chicago resident Julio Noriega, 54, a U.S. citizen who, according to court documents, was arrested, handcuffed and spent most of the night at an ICE processing center in suburban Broadview. He was never questioned about his citizenship and was only released after agents looked at his ID.

> “I was born in Chicago, Illinois and am a United States citizen,” Noriega said in his statement, adding that on Jan. 31, after buying pizza in Berwyn he was surrounded by ICE agents and arrested. Officers took away his wallet, which had his ID and social security card. “They then handcuffed me and pushed me into a white van where other people were handcuffed as well.”

# A pattern of warrantless arrests

> Attorneys say these actions violate the Nava Settlement — a 2018 class-action lawsuit filed in response to unlawful arrests by ICE agents who used traffic stops and other tactics to make arrests without a warrant. Under the agreement, ICE officials can conduct a warrantless arrest if they believe an individual is likely to escape but they must provide evidence. But in the motion filed Thursday in federal court in Chicago, attorneys said federal agents since January “failed to assess whether there was probable cause that an individual was likely to flee before a warrant could be issued.”

> “[Federal agents] have seemingly developed a pattern or practice of trying to evade the [Nava] settlement by arresting people with … quote, unquote, administrative warrants that they are creating in the field, as they’ve already had the person detained,” Fleming said.

> In another case, in Liberty, Missouri, 12 restaurant workers were barricaded inside a Mexican restaurant, guarded by armed Department of Homeland Security agents who then arrested the workers without a warrant, according to the legal document filed on Thursday. Missouri is one of six states, along with Illinois, covered by the Nava settlement. In the document, attorneys argue the agents tried to cover up these settlement violations by allegedly providing arrest documents that were backfilled after the fact to justify the warrantless arrests.

> The arrests since Trump took office not only violate the Nava settlement and federal immigration law, attorneys argue, but also the Fourth Amendment, which protects people from unreasonable search and seizure.

!ping IMMIGRATION&SNEK&USA-CHI

Abolishing ICE is a rational position considering this is the kind of job they do

ICE is rotten to the core. What can we do as citizens to oppose them? Can states criminally prosecute cases against individual agents?