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Federal courts have increasingly checked ICE’s use of warrantless arrests since 2022, most prominently in Chicago where a federal judge found multiple warrantless arrests violated the 2022 Castañon Na...
Federal reporting and independent coverage show that ICE agents have used pepper‑ball projectiles at protests, but the legality and formal authorization are contested: a Government Accountability Offi...
Federal courts have drawn a line between routine policing rules and immigration enforcement: judges repeatedly say ICE can detain and arrest people suspected of being unlawfully present but must still...
Since 2022 federal judges in at least one major district have pushed back on warrantless ICE arrests by enforcing or extending court-ordered limits on interior arrests, most notably the Castañón Nava ...
Federal courts have not established a single, nationwide rule that all federal agents must always verbally identify themselves or wear visible nameplates or badge numbers; instead, courts treat identi...
A November 2023 federal jury in the Northern District of Illinois found major egg producers and two industry trade groups liable for conspiring to limit U.S. egg supplies and inflate prices, leading t...
ICE’s public guidance and detention rules show the agency has broad authority to arrest and detain noncitizens in the interior for immigration purposes, and ICE says it prioritizes those who are manda...
Video, reporting and court filings establish that federal agents fired at protesters and at least one pastor was struck during demonstrations outside ICE facilities in 2025; that prompted a federal ju...
A recent set of federal court filings alleges that on October 23, 2025 a federal immigration agent pointed a gun at a U.S. citizen — described as a combat veteran and protester — and uttered , claims ...
Federal courts and legal doctrine give ICE authority to make warrantless arrests in public when officers have statutory or constitutional grounds, but recent judicial rulings and the Supreme Court’s 2...
Federal judges and settlements over the past decade have carved clear limits around ICE’s use of deception and its reliance on administrative (non‑judicial) warrants: courts have curtailed warrantless...
A Chicago-area pastor, Reverend David Black, was during a September 19 protest outside the Broadview ICE processing facility; multiple news organizations report video of the impact and the minister co...
Reverend David Black — referred to in reporting as Rev. David Black or Rev. Black — was struck by a projectile identified as a fired by federal agents during a protest outside the Broadview, Illinois ...
The investigation into the pastor hit by a pepper ball at a Broadview ICE protest led federal judges in the Northern District of Illinois to impose court restrictions on federal agents' use of , inclu...