By Mark Gruenberg & John Wojcik
Photos: YouTube Screenshots
—In landmark rulings that could signal the beginning of the end to legal tolerance of the Trump administration’s violent immigration raids and arrests, two federal judges in Chicago, ruling on separate lawsuits, have “thrown the book” at ICE. One demanded an end to the violence used against protesters, demonstrators, the media, and the people they dragoon in their “Operation Midway Blitz.” The other demanded an end to the inhumane conditions in ICE’s detention center in suburban Chicago’s town of Broadview. The Broadview facility resembles prisons in autocratic dictatorships.
Though the Trump regime won an immediate stay of the two decisions from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, also in Chicago, its judges indicated they would rule quickly on whether to uphold the lower court rulings.
The November 22 decision by U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis featured not just written words but photos and body camera footage of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents singling out peaceful protesters and reporters, as well as supposedly undocumented people the agents rounded up for violent assaults, tear-gassing, rubber bullets, flash grenades, beatings, and worse.
Judge Ellis’s decision, which expanded on her prior preliminary injunction in the case, drew praise from pro-migrant groups and from the two unions, the Chicago News Guild and NABET-CWA Local 41, who sued to stop ICE’s targeted violence. ICE has arrested more than 3,000 people…READ MORE
