>> Local activists are saying federal immigration agents violated the rights of 22 people, including a U.S. citizen.

arrest made in the first few weeks of President Trump's term attorneys who filed a lawsuit earlier this week say the arrest violated 2022 agreement between local organizations and the federal government that restricts immigration and Customs Enforcement officers for making lists and collateral arrest.

The agreement covers Illinois and 5 other states.

Joining us now with more is Karen's E WIC, director of litigation at the National Immigration Immigrant Justice Center.

Thank you for joining us.

Now.

As I mentioned, the lawsuit claims eyes unlawfully arrested.

22 individuals and President Trump took office.

Can you explain at this point what the family seek from the lawsuit filed by the end?

I Jaycee and the ACLU of Illinois.

>> Yes, thank you for having me.

As you mentioned.

And in the lead, we filed motion to enforce a 2022 settlement on behalf of 22 individuals who we believe were unlawfully arrested in violation of the settlement from 2022, the motion demands that people are remaining who remain in immigration custody now be released without required to pay bond or be subject to conditions.

And that people who have been already been released paid a bond that those that those bond funds, the return and also because there are so many violations in just such a short period of time.

22 violations in just a few weeks.

We are arguing that there is a pattern disregard for the settlement.

And so we're asking for additional oversight from the >> key to prevent this from happening going forward.

>> And Karen, I want to go back.

The National Immigrant Justice Center sued the Trump administration again.

Immigration sweeps back in 2018 during the president's first term which led to a settlement in 2022, how has the president violated the settlement during the first weeks of his second term?

>> All right.

So this case is actually it isn't.

It is a motion to enforce that.

that settlement from that previous case and the violations here numerous, for example, one of the individuals in this case, fact, a U.S. citizen immigration officials detained 10 an detain him, handcuffed in.

did not ask him any questions about his citizenship.

Help him for more than about 10 hours and released him without any documentation of their.

The fact had ever happened his cause in their custody to begin with.

So all of that is in violation of the settlement because they arrested a person without probable cause that he was, in fact, not U.S. citizen.

And then they failed to document that.

They rested many other individuals without warrants large oftentimes in the community and oftentimes and violent and aggressive manners and then they're trying to circumvent the settlement by issuing what say, our warrants.

In the field, but their I'm putting that in scare quotes because those warrants are issued only after a person is already in handcuffs.

Already.

What we would say in custody of the police and then they're trying to scramble to issue well, our but I warrants in the field after those after those arrests have already been made.

And even in doing that, they're violating policies that they would be required to follow even.

>> She completed administrative or >> and the lawsuit sheds light on the rest of of overall score data from the Chicago suburbs who has been detained since January.

His son into our north.

They gave an emotional testimony in a news conference this week.

Let's take a listen.

>> Ice is doing things that they're not supposed There's they're arresting people where they're not supposed to.

They're stating that there are resting thousands of hard-core criminals.

My father's not a criminal.

>> And Karen, as we just heard the son of the water, though, saying that his father is no criminal, has no criminal record.

What can you tell us about about his case?

>> Well, has missed as it Mrs both in the United States for over 27 years.

He owns a landscaping company and he has been he's never been arrested for any criminal action in his entire life.

As as Eduardo put it in that same interview that you just quoted from.

He just goes to work he comes back to family.

He's a loving and caring and responsible person.

He's someone to look up to an honest person.

His attention has course Mrs. Those attention has forced the business to close the landscaping business and he own that employed 5 to 10 people at any given time.

So it's just evidence of what happens when that it's not just about the one person was arrested, but these kinds of things have effects for that, not just that person but their families and many people beyond >> Karen, how how could of this to know how could this have happened?

>> in in this particular situation, MRS Bull is living He was living with other members of his family and ice claims to have coming to the house to make an arrest for somebody else, but they but they were not.

They were not looking for him and they they took him because he was there and they.

That's what they're doing in these the situation that they call that collateral arrest and they willingly and openly admitting that anybody who happens to be in the presence, others who are subject to the circumstances are vulnerable.

Would you say these are some of the Constand, you know, beings that you've been seeing?

>> Yes, for sure.

One of the biggest one of the biggest patterns and practices targeting of collateral making this the use of collateral arrests.

So what that means is.

>> Ice will go into the field with that claim that they're looking for one specific person and it will use that claim that against that one specific person as pretext to arrest any people that they find along the way for in the course of looking for that one first specific person, even if they even if they don't really think that that person is going to be there or even it, maybe they don't actually believe that the person is in in the place where they are supposedly looking.

Now, Karen lawsuit also alleges a lack of transparency.

Do we know?

>> Ice has arrested in Chicago and the Midwest.

Frankly, no, we 22 examples are just a small slice of what we know based on the.

>> A limited amount limited amount of capacity that we have to screen people on a pick on a quick turnaround and we know that there are many more.

already have another batch of violations of the settlement that we a plan to bring to the court's attention And so I think that the truth matter is, we don't know.

But we do know is that ICE continues to claim that they're going after 2 people whom they would characterize as the worst of the worst.

But none of these individuals meets that criteria by even any stretch of the imagination.

Most of them have had no interaction with the criminal justice system ever