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A Northwest Side alderman is suing the federal government for up to $100,000, alleging federal immigration agents shoved, threatened and unlawfully detained her last fall during a sweep that went viral on social media and roiled Humboldt Park during Operation Midway Blitz.
Ald. Jessie Fuentes, 26th, filed the lawsuit in federal court in Chicago yesterday, more than seven months after the confrontation. In early October, as the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign descended on Chicago, Fuentes was briefly placed in handcuffs after she went to Humboldt Park Health to check on a constituent who had been injured during an immigration arrest.
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