ICE agents have also arrested people this year at Chicago\u2019s federal courthouses after their immigration cases have been dismissed,\u00a0Borderless reported<\/a>. The arrests are part of an aggressive escalation of immigration enforcement to\u00a0expand President Donald Trump\u2019s sweep of undocumented immigrants<\/a><\/p>\n Heiderscheidt, in court filings, described Perez Canola\u2019s case as being emblematic of a \u201cbroader scheme\u201d to deny due process to millions of immigrants by \u201c\u2019flooding the zone\u2019 with an array of enforcement actions that range from legal but pernicious, to outright and flagrant violations of constitutional due process.\u201d<\/p>\n Heiderscheidt\u2019s complaint cited one social media post from President Donald Trump in which the president wrote, \u201cWe cannot give everyone a trial, because to do so would take, without exaggeration, 200 years.\u201d And the \u201cflooding the zone\u201d language comes from Tom Homan, Trump\u2019s \u201cborder czar.\u201d<\/p>\n According to court documents, Judge Jody Barilla, a Chicago immigration judge, wrote in a court order that Perez Canola had \u201cexpressed a credible fear of returning to Ecuador\u201d while seeking asylum but that his detention has since \u201cprevented him from effectively communicating with his attorney, thereby interfering with his right to due process and his right to counsel.\u201d<\/p>\n But that didn\u2019t stop Perez Canola from being ordered removed from the United States on Thursday in a Louisiana courtroom, according to public records. He remains in ICE custody at a nearby prison. Federal officials have requested to send him to Honduras.<\/p>\n Perez Canola entered the United States through a port of entry at the Texas border in 2023 and was on a parole status to stay in the country granted by the Biden administration, according to court documents.<\/p>\n Perez Canola, who sold ice cream in Ecuador, claimed his family received death threats from gang members when he refused sell drugs at schools, according to an asylum application filed last year. <\/p>\n ICE spokespeople did not return a request for comment about Perez Canola\u2019s case. <\/p>\n But in a response to the lawsuit, Justice Department attorneys wrote that Perez Canola\u2019s parole status had ended about a week before his arrest by ICE agents.<\/p>\n \u201cImportantly, though, parole is not an admission to the United States,\u201d the attorneys wrote.<\/p>\n Last week, two people were arrested by ICE at Cook County\u2019s domestic violence court<\/a>. The federal agency has yet to release complete data<\/a> on who has been arrested in Chicago, for what and where they\u2019ve been sent.<\/p>\n The Trump administration has fired at least two Chicago immigration judges<\/a>, including the former assistant chief overseeing the courthouse, and over 100 immigration judges across the country.<\/a><\/p>\n![\"An](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bcc-immigration-protest-20250906-01-1024x674.jpg\")
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle sits in the parking garage of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in the Chicago Loop on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025 ahead of anticipated immigration raids across the Chicagoland area. Credit: Talia Sprague\/Block Club Chicago<\/p>\n
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Protesters flip off Trump Tower during a protest against immigration raids in Chicago on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025. Credit: Talia Sprague\/Block Club Chicago<\/p>\n