Overview
- Venegas, detained twice at Alabama construction sites, moved this week to certify his suit as a class action and requested a preliminary injunction to halt construction-site raids.
- Court filings describe agents dismissing REAL ID licenses, entering private property without warrants, and detaining workers first before verifying status, citing incidents involving Jorge Estrada and Gehovani Alvirde-Ruiz.
- DHS has rejected accusations of racial profiling, with a senior official calling such claims categorically false, while ICE declined to comment on the new motion.
- In Chicago, homeowner Leo Feler released Oct. 24 security footage he says shows masked federal agents entering his property without a warrant and detaining a worker, and he says police would not advance his criminal complaint.
- U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley asked the DHS inspector general to investigate local ICE and CBP actions as city officials report continued arrests at O’Hare despite new signage and security meant to keep federal agents off city property.