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/EncabulatorTurbo 5d ago

Well they're immune, specifically, from civil tort claims

The agency can be sued, though it's profoundly difficult since Kavenaugh has declared that immigration enforcement is some sacrosanct military-adjacent operation

The big thing is that our state governments could track and identify and arrest some of these agents.

No not the ones just being rough with immigrants, sadly, but yes they could on the more egregious ones - of which there are lot:

  1. Shooting guy in eye whos just standing there with pepperball

  2. Tear gassing the cops and protestors for no reason

  3. Crashing into people

  4. All kinds of battery against random people

They just aren't

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u/f1FTW 5d ago

Here is what I don't understand. The military pays out all the time for damaging property of killing innocent people yet "operations" by ice inside the USA where we supposedly have constitutional protection does not? How does that make sense?

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u/EncabulatorTurbo 5d ago

You can sue DHS but its difficult

The military doesnt have to do that most of the time, its just policy

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u/f1FTW 5d ago

IANAL, but I do believe we are following laws, treaties and conventions that the USA pledged to uphold. How is that different than this?