An unspecified Elgin father, who has been in the country for more than two decades, was swept away by a fugitive investigation targeting his half -son, a scene that was captured in a annoying video that went viral on social media .
44 -year -old Raul Lopez was brought to the US immigration and customs enforcement processing center at a suburban broadview after physically out of his Elgin House by federal agents with the service of US marshals on Tuesday morning. 26 -year -old Jose was an agent for Ramos, for the half -son of Lopez who wanted for attempted murder.
But Ramos was not home when the authorities entered the house. Instead, agents arrested Lopez, who were hiding in an attic during the raid.
Sanjuana Ramos, his wife, recalled his 3 -year -old child in his arms, while the agents handcuffed their husbands. His daughters were crying. He said that the agents said to him, “We have to take someone.”
“But why did he?” He said that he asked the agents to examine his record after begging. “He has not found anything, there is no criminal record that is different from uninterrupted.”
One week in his nationwide efforts to crack down on Donald Trump’s second presidential post and illegal immigration, the federal officer is working with a new spirit of the mission: Under Trump, the officials can now arrest people without legal status. If they walk on them, while the target migrants in search of migrants are targeted. To remove. Under the President Joe Biden, such a “collateral arrest” was banned.
During the White House briefing on Tuesday, Press Secretary Karolin Lewitt was asked how many of those arrested have a criminal record, which are illegally in the country.
“All of them because they illegally break the laws of our country and hence they are criminals as far as this administration goes,” he replied. “I know that the final administration did not see it in this way, so it is a big culture change in our nation that is to see someone who breaks our immigration laws as a criminal, but in reality I am the same. ”
While there were no fugitives sought at home on Silver Street in Lopez Elgin, snow officials coming with the US martial office took him into custody, according to Belkis Sandowal, public affairs officials of the American Marshal Great Lex Regional Fusitive Task Force. He said that the ICE officer is part of the martial office and is in detail with him.
Ice officials have not returned the call for comment, but the agency announced on X that till January 29, it had made 1,016 arrests across the country, with 814 in custody. It is not clear how many of them arrest from the Chicago region. At a news conference at the city hall on Tuesday, Chicago Superintendent of Police Larry Snelling said that more than 100 people in the Chicago region were taken into custody. He said that he does not have a description of whether he was really convicted of criminal offenses.
A record discovery at Cook, Kane and Dupes Counties did not arrest any hooliganism by men with the same name and age. His family said that he was a roof that helped his wife do strange work. He has been in the country for 24 years.
Family from Guanazuato, Mexico, went to his light blue house in Elgin last year. It was a dream that it was true after living in the country for more than two decades and working, Lopez’s wife, Ramos said.
One of the three daughters of the couple, Janet Lopez said that the family is trying to face it.
“This is a lot. We are just trying to find out what is going on, ”he said.
The raid began around 7 am on Tuesday morning, with a heavy knock on the door, the Lopez family remembered. The couple’s daughters were getting ready for work and school.
“They were saying that they were searching for this person, but we said that he does not live here,” his daughter Bethzi Lopez said 18 -year -old Bethzi Lopez.
He asked the immigration lawyers not to open the door for ice and to see the warrant signed by a judge. So he asked to see a warrant through the closed door.
The next thing she knew, the agents were breaking in the door with a heavy price bar. The damage to the door was visible on Tuesday afternoon, with wood around the entry of the house. Her sister, Geneth recorded a video of the door -breaking agents.
He was a federal agent standing on his porch. Holding a black shield, stating that the “sheriff” stood at the door, which was shining a flashlight in the entrance. He announced that he had a criminal warrant.
Geneth Lopez captured the events on his phone. The family can be asked to see a warrant repeatedly.
“We are looking for Jose Ramos,” an agent can be heard saying in a video.
They were part of a fugitive investigation, not ice raids, federal officials later said. The suspect being sought was accused of attempting to murder first-degree in the shooting of November 12 in Elgin. He wants an increased battery with an increased battery and a gang member for illegal use of a weapon by a warrant for attempt to murder.
The family told the agents that Jose Ramos did not live there. He did not see him for months. The agents made a sweep of the house and they got lope instead.
“After a systematic discovery of the residence, a male theme was found deep, hidden in the attic,” said Sandowal, a spokesman of the US Marshal Service. “A search investigation revealed that it turned into an ice case.”
Although the family had heard of the increased immigration enforcement in Chicago, they were not worried because “we () did not do anything wrong,” Lopez’s wife told the tribune.
Ramos said, “He asked me to be strong, that we have not given anything to them and we were working hard to ensure that our daughter can finish school.”
The collateral arrests may be for previous offenses or for civil matters, such as not legally in the United States, Hughs Sokol Pierce Renic and DYM, a immigration lawyer Kalman Renic.
Nevertheless, the way law enforcement entered the House on Silver Street and family members may have violated their constitutional rights, they said after watching the video.
“In this case, what was the necessary emphasis by the woman (who was taken out of the house)?” He asked. “The US Constitution’s inappropriate discovery and the right to be free from the seizure attack applies to all people … There is no reason to use any physical restraint on any person for law enforcement that is not harming them Is or is trying to escape. ”
Sandowal said that the task force usually examines all those who are at home due to security reasons and will continue searching for Ramos until he is arrested. He said that the operation was not originally an immigration case and when it became one, the snow took over.
The Illinois Trust Act typically prohibits local law enforcement by participating in immigration enforcement in Illinois. Asked about the officer, who was marked as “Sheriff”, Sandowal could not say which Sheriff was involved in the office operation. Tuesday’s arrest was detected in Ken County.
Ken County Sheriff Ron Han said that his office was not included on Tuesday. A spokesman of the Sheriff Office at Cook County – where the murder allegedly attempted by Ramos was also said that its officials were not involved. Sheriff’s offices also denied being part of Tuesday’s operations at the nearby counties.
Advocates in Chicago are worried that the administration is looking for ways to achieve access to the unspecified community how snow has usually worked.
This means that Arandira Randan, vice -president of immigrant justice in the revival project, said that high alert should be issued.
“We need to be cautious and take care of each other,” he said. For the first time, many are hidden. She believes that collateral arrest will start increasing in the coming weeks.