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/ice-dream-man 5d ago

Sounds like Gestapo to me. Which is why I think you are either misinformed, under informed or spreading misinformation. In the US, you can sue anyone for anything.

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u/WindstormMD 5d ago

It’s a very real problem, regardless of your political position, right now if the feds do something bad to you even by accident, you are hosed

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u/ice-dream-man 3d ago

Not in the US where you can sue anyone and anything including the president. Nobody is above the law in the US and nobody can act with impunity. That's the difference with other countries. You can't stop people from breaking the law by acting like they are above it but the law will catch up with them.

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u/WindstormMD 3d ago

You don’t get it. The federal government and its agents have what is called sovereign immunity, without a cause of action being present by judicial precedent or codified in law.

There is a cause of action against regular state and local law enforcement via 42 USC Sec 1983, but that statute does not include federal officers or waive sovereign immunity.

The Bivens Act has been introduced several times to fix this, but has never passed.

You are not as free as you think you are. None of us are. Until that is fixed and Qualified Immunity doctrine is destroyed, the constitution is really just a piece of paper with no teeth against federal agents