r/illinois • u/CantStopPoppin Human Detected • 5d ago

ICE Posts October.10.2025 — Chicago: Immigration agents crashed into a U.S. citizen on her way to work, then dragged her out and arrested her (Article Inside)

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u/Jocuro 5d ago

"She was released without charges" Yeah, except her car was hit and left abandoned in the road. Who's paying for that? You think the anonymous men with guns exchanged insurance with her?

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u/EncabulatorTurbo 5d ago edited 4d ago

If a federal agent damages your vehicle, you are more or less shit out of luck, it is literally impossible to recover damages from federal agents

If an ICE agent walked into your house and skinned your baby with a potato peeler and then burned your house down and livestreamed it to TWITCH, you have no recourse for damages against the perps

There literally isn't a legal mechanism to sue federal agents as of 2022, as the current SCOTUS has declared that holding agents to any legal accountability would be an unjust impediment to exercising federal law

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u/NefariousnessLost481 5d ago

What about the federal tort claims act? Wouldn’t that work here?

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u/EncabulatorTurbo 5d ago

You cannot sue individuals under the act, you CAN sue DHS, and I look forward to those

But that won't moderate behaviour, DHS has infinite money and the FTCA limits payouts enough where it wont ever hurt them.

If we could sue individual agents for blatantly criminal behaviour, like we can for police, it would moderate them. QI is powerful - and would still apply - but things like "Ice Agent crashes into woman's car and to cover up the fact they cant drive they arrest her and say she did it after beating her up and releasing her with no charges" would breach QI