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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 22h

A federal judge in Chicago says ICE violated a consent decree with warrantless arrests. blockclubchi.co/4nGUOQ8

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 1d

When we sued to stop the ICE raids in Alabama, DHS said it can make immigration arrests based on reasonable suspicion.

We figured McLaughlin just misspoke.

But here’s the Chief Border Agent clarifying that they don’t think they need probable cause.

www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 1d

When we sued to stop the ICE raids in Alabama, DHS said it can make immigration arrests based on reasonable suspicion.

We figured McLaughlin just misspoke.

But here’s the Chief Border Agent clarifying that they don’t think they need probable cause.

www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 1d

If anyone knows any victims of this raid, we’d like to talk to them.

Our legal services are all completely free.

We’ve got two other cases over ICE raids already. And we just won a Supreme Court case over the FBI raiding the wrong house.

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 3d

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 8d

Good job Brett

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 2d

This is why our lawsuit refers to it as a demographic profile.

And it’s part of how the admin found traction with Kavanaugh.

ICE is targeting people based on ethnicity + occupation.

Their position is that brown people with certain jobs are inherently suspect and subject to countless stops.

Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 2d

There is a class component to federal agents' crackdowns. They're abducting day laborers, street vendors, domestic workers, textile workers en masse. They're not going after big employers/people in Trump's corporate milieu.

How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor

While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 3d

And when it comes to it, they also don’t believe you should be allowed to sue for damages after the fact

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 3d

Would also love for him to explain when damages are “appropriate” for constitutional violations.

His camp is suddenly eager to say damages remedies “should be” available after they made sure that none are.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 4d

There are lots of more glaring and physically brutal basic violations of rights going on but it’s weird how ICE just seems to be freely stealing and wrecking people’s possessions too

Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 4d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 4d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 5d

ICE says I cause assaults on ICE by reciting facts about ICE’s recent shooting but refuses to link to the thread. Only posting a picture. ICE lies and ICE hides. You can read the facts for yourselves

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 6d

DHS just lies constantly but this time they let the truth slip. DHS will arrest you if you are Hispanic PLUS literally any other thing that they think is correlated statistically with being here illegally; occupation, English speaking ability, the neighborhood, etc. It is sick.

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Corli Jay @corli.thetriibe.com · 6d

So DHS is saying we didn’t see what we thought we did.
The dept has not responded to why immigration agents were allegedly responding to a robbery.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").

Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties.

Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go.

“I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” Jones said. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 6d

Chicago, Illinois, 2025:

"They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van."

"They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other."

"I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'"

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

abc7chicago.com

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 7d

The federal surge didn’t end in DC.

It became entrenched. ICE is still riding with MPD. We have “local control” back & people are still being detained & deported. National Guard is still here with long guns pacing our streets.

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks for flagging! They did something similar with our other client who was featured in that NYT story.

Just about every time they arrest a citizen by mistake they later claim it was for assault.

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 7d

This is a masterclass in seeking every possible type of relief for a violation of your federal constitutional rights by a federal officer. Injunctive relief, APA, state tort law, Westfall Act, FTCA, Bivens—it’s all in there. Our friends at @ij.org really know what they’re doing.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 7d

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 7d

Short answer is no. We rep people completely free of charge to make sure fees don’t get in the way.

Private attorneys will often do it on contingency. But the federal tort claims act caps those fees. Attorneys can also see fees from the gov in civil rights cases, but that’s not easy either.

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 7d

All the vitriol makes it easy to overlook that DHS's official spokesperson thinks the 4th Amendment allows for arrests based on reasonable suspicion.

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 7d

We sued because ICE arrested Leo twice for being brown on a construction site and refused to believe his REAL ID was real.

DHS responded today by calling our case "garbage," "race-baiting" that will "directly contribute" to more assaults of ICE officers.

bit.ly/3KvED9R

“Under the fourth amendment of the U.S. Constitution, DHS law enforcement uses ‘reasonable suspicion’ to make arrests,” There are no ‘indiscriminate stops’ being made. The (U.S.) Supreme Court recently vindicated us on this question. DHS enforces federal immigration law without fear, favor, or prejudice.”
McLaughlin went on to say that the lawsuit is only adding fuel to violent strikes against ICE agents in respone to ramped up immigration enforcement, such as a sniper attack on the ICE Dallas Field Office on Sept. 24.
“This type of garbage is directly contributing to ICE officers facing a 1000% increase in assaults against them,” McLaughlin said. “... Race-baiting opportunism in the form of a baseless lawsuit is no better than when it comes from politicians or activists.”

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 7d

This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit.
1) Plaintiff is natural born.
2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants.
3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property.
4) He showed Real ID both times.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 7d

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 7d

We’re a nonprofit that specializes in things like mistaken-identity arrests and keeping the police off private property

In June, we won a Supreme Court case about the right to sue under the Federal Tort Claims Act when the FBI raids the wrong house

All our work is pro bono

ij.org/ll/unanimous...

Unanimous Supreme Court Victory! For Victims Of FBI Wrong-House Raid - Institute for Justice

On June 12, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the FBI wrong-house raid case Martin v. United States, earning IJ our third high court victory since […]

ij.org

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Deborah Friedell @deborahfriedell.bsky.social · 7d

The case is being brought by a public interest law firm, which represents clients free of charge (but which would very much appreciate donations). More information here: ij.org/press-releas...

U.S. Citizen’s Lawsuit Demands an End to Unconstitutional Raids and Detentions at Alabama Construction Sites - Institute for Justice

MOBILE, Ala.—Leo Garcia Venegas is an American citizen and construction worker in south Alabama. Even though he has done nothing suspicious and is working on […]

ij.org

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 8d

A US citizen alleges he was improperly arrested and detained twice by immigration officers as they targeted Latino workers at Alabama construction sites, claims they initially rebuffed his offers to prove legal status -- new proposed class action in federal court buff.ly/LVwQRIm

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