Crime & Law
No one was injured in the shooting reported by federal agents, according to a spokesperson for the Chicago Police Department.
Attorneys Seek Release of Day Care Teacher Detained by Federal Agents, Moved to Indiana ICE Facility
Attorneys filed an updated petition Thursday seeking the release of Diana Patricia Santillana Galeano, who, at the time, was being held at the ICE processing center in Broadview. Santillana Galeano has since been moved to an ICE facility in Clark County, Indiana, according to her attorney.
After daylong hearings, hours of witness testimony and high-profile rulings, Chicago’s Dirksen Federal Building has served as the battleground over the Trump administration’s wildly expanded immigration enforcement efforts throughout northern Illinois.
Attorneys representing detainees who claimed they were subjected to “inhumane” conditions at the Broadview ICE facility are asking for permission to inspect the facility.
Among the new cases the justices are expected to consider is a longshot appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples following the court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges.
Protesters, clergy members and others who say they’ve been directly impacted by a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs will testify before a federal judge weighing whether to impose a lengthier ban on immigration agents’ use of chemical weapons like tear gas and pepper balls.
The video shows two agents detaining the teacher inside the preschool and day care and then removing her from the facility. The teacher can be heard saying she has papers.
The MacArthur Justice Center and the ACLU of Illinois filed a lawsuit alleging ICE officials are denying detainees access to their attorneys and subjecting them to mistreatment and overcrowding. Federal officials have denied those accusations.
Key legal principles at the heart of conservative challenges to major initiatives in the Biden years are driving the arguments in the fight against Trump’s tariffs, which is set for arguments at the high court on Wednesday.
U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis had ordered Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino to appear in her courtroom every weekday at 6 p.m. to recap the events of the day and inform her of any use of force.
The suit, brought on behalf of Broadview detainees by the MacArthur Justice Center and the ACLU of Illinois, claims ICE officials have “cut off detainees from the outside world” by preventing them from making confidential phone calls to their lawyer or a prospective lawyer.
The program serves about one in eight Americans and is a major piece of the nation’s social safety net. Word in October that it would be a Nov. 1 casualty of the shutdown sent states, food banks and SNAP recipients scrambling to figure out how to secure food.
A West Side resident, Remel Terry has been a member of the commission, better known as the CCPSA, since it was launched in 2022.
Ruben Torres Maldonado, who was detained by immigration agents earlier this month and whose teenage daughter is fighting cancer, is set to be released from custody after a judge on Thursday granted him a bond.
A recently released agreement gives the Department of Homeland Security access to hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security data. It contains alarmingly few provisions to ensure accuracy and privacy, experts say.
The DOJ filed the motion with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday afternoon, hours before Bovino was set to appear at the Dirksen Federal Building to meet with U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis.