#useofforce — Public Fediverse posts

Fleming represents the two men — a Venezuelan man & a Mexican man both in the country illegally — in the ongoing litigation that claims the #FederalGovernment continues to violate the 2022 Castañon Nava settlement agreement, which limits #ICE's ability to #arrest people without #warrants or #ProbableCause.

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The records confirm "the worst thoughts that we had about the operation," Mark Fleming, the associate director of federal litigation at the National Immigrant Justice Center, told NPR.

"This is the most brazen #unconstitutional #UseOfForce in an operation that I've seen in my entire career," he said. "They have no legal authority to be addressing purported #squatters; that is not within the purview of the #FederalGovernment."

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Quickly after the Sept 30, 2025, raid, #DHS published a dramatic video of the operation showing agents with their #guns drawn, some rappelling out of a #BlackHawkHelicopter onto the roof, & leading people [including children & people not dressed] away with their hands zip-tied.

On multiple occasions, the #Trump admin has said the building was frequented by members of #TrenDeAragua , a Venezuelan gang.

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Court records show #Chicago #immigration raid was about #squatters, not Venezuelan #gangs

Newly revealed arrest records show that a high-profile immigration raid on a South Shore Chicago apartment building last year that became a symbol of #Trump's harsh immigration tactics actually targeted squatters, not Venezuelan gang members.

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https://www.npr.org/2026/02/06/nx-s1-5703603/court-records-chicago-immigration-raid-was-about-squatters-not-venezuelan-gangs

The admin’s operations, they said, flout “our nation’s deepest moral commitments” & “values of human dignity.”

The group includes #RomanCatholic Cardinal Archbishop Robert McElroy; #Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde; Rabbi Abbi Sharofsky of the #Jewish Community Relations Council; & #Zoroastrian Head Priest Berham Panthaki, among others.

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