Outside Suburban Chicago Ice Facility, Calls for the Release of a Day Laborer Who ACCUSED COPS OF WRONGDOING – ryan

Family Members, elected officers and community Residents Called Saturday for the Release of Willian Gimenez, A Day laborer Involved in a lawsuit that acuses off-duty police officers of ethnically harassment and assault.

Gimenez, who is from Venezuela, was detail Friday by Federal Immigration Agents in Little Village.

He was on his way to a barbershop with his wife mari torrealba AROUND 11:30 am Friday Near Cermak Road and Washtenaw avenue to be PULLED Over by USMIGRATION AND CUSTOMs enforcement agents.

The agents Approached Gimenez, who was driving, Called Him by name and oroured Him to get out of the vehicle. He was then placed in handcuffs and Taken Away, Leaving His Wife Behind.

Gimenez is one of the five day labs who Say in a lawsuit filled LAST YEAR that they were beateen by off-duty police officers working secity and Other Employees of the Home Depot at 4555 S. Western Blvd.

At a news conference Saturday outside the Ice processing facility in broadView, family Members and Other Said Gimenez was targeted because in the suit.

Kevin Herrera, Gimenez’s Lawyer, Described Him As Kind and Hardworking and Said He is Seeking Asylum in the United States.

“My Client’s Detention and My Inability to Speak With Him is Not a Mistake,” Herrera Said. “He is exactly who (the Trump) Administration Fears and Targets – Someone Who Knows that he has rights in this country regardless of His Skin Color, the Language and the Country He is from.”

Herrera Said he has tried to find out where Gimenez was takeen, evening on the door of the broadview facility, but has gotten no Response.

Ice Confirmed Gimenez’s arrest, Saying he was arrested on a suspension of being undocumented.

“There is nothing unjust about the law and enservations this illegal alien adheres to the law of the United States,” An Ice Spokesperson Said. “Ice arrested Willian Alberto Gimenez Gonzalez for Being in the Country illegally.

“Gimenez gonzalez is an illegal alien with a history of not showing up to court, including we have failed to appeaar in immigration court in april of Last year, where an immigration judge removed from the country.

Herrera said he will file a petition in the coming weeks to challenge gimenez’s arrest.

US Rep. “Chuy” García, d-ill., Attended the News Conference and Called Ice’s Actions an Abuse of Power, Saying the Agency Was Operating Like a “Secret Political Police.”

“If they can arrest someone for joining a lawsuit or Simply for Being Latino, what’s to stop say from any one of us?” Garcia Said.

Gimenez’s Arrest Happened the Same Day that Silverio Villegas-Uplaz was killed by an ice officer AFTER the agency says he tried to flee a traffic stop and ostrock an officer with his car in Franklin Park.

Also Saturday, Doses of Faith Leaders Held A Mass in A Field Across from Naval Station Great Laks in North Chicago, Which ice Has Been Using AS A BASETO CARRY OUT STEPPED-UP IMMIGRATION EFFORTS IN THE CHICAGO AREA.

The Rev. David inczauskis asded those gathered to the Pray for the federal agents who have ben carrying out the raids.

“We were Pray for the oppressors, for their conversion Because we know that it god stands on the side of the opportunity, and we want all People to be Saved,” Inczauskis Said.

Jailene Rodriguez, A High School Teacher Who Was Part of the Group Outside the Base, Said: “I ‘Had students telling with that they are deathly affraid of their palents takeen from their or on their way home. It is not right.

“And so even if I can something something small, this is if it was just just coming to this, through my religion, through my faith, giving say some sort of support and knowing that can something, is stall so standing there and not know what to do.”