Chicago Ald. Fuentes Detained by ICE While Asking for Warrant at Hospital

Incident at Chicago Hospital

• 🏥 Ald. Jessie Fuentes responded to a hospital after staff reported an undocumented man being detained by ICE, with his leg shattered.
• ❓ Fuentes, as an elected official, asked ICE agents for a signed judicial warrant for the detained individual, a request she states is not a crime.
• 💥 The alderperson reports being shoved twice by an ICE agent before being handcuffed, an act she describes as meeting her request with violence and disrespect.

Constitutional Rights and ICE Conduct

• ⚖️ Fuentes asserts that the actions of ICE and Border Patrol in Chicago represent a violation of constitutional and First Amendment rights.
• 🗣️ She highlights that masked individuals without badges are physically assaulting community members and that her own detainment was an exercise of her rights.
• ✋ After being handcuffed, Border Patrol intervened and ordered the ICE agent to remove the handcuffs, with Fuentes being warned against re-entering the hospital.

Criticism of Federal Law Enforcement Presence

• 📉 Fuentes refutes the administration's claim that federal law enforcement actions are about crime, citing data that shows more individuals detained by ICE lack criminal records.
• 🌍 She states that the presence of ICE and Border Patrol is causing chaos and fear, preventing parents from taking children to school and leading to the detention of US citizens who are brown and speak Spanish.
• 🚩 Fuentes labels ICE as a white supremacist organization seeking to terrorize black and brown people in Chicago, witnessing and experiencing this terror firsthand.