CHICAGO — Federal immigration agents illegally arrested nearly two dozen people earlier this year without warrants in violation of a 2022 consent decree, a federal judge in Chicago ruled late Tuesday.

Immigration and civil liberties advocates based in Chicago sued federal authorities in March over the arrests of 26 people in the Midwest — including one U.S. citizen — during the opening days of President Donald Trump’s second term in January.

They claimed that such arrests violated a three-year consent decree banning warrantless arrests unless agents have probable cause to believe someone is in the United States unlawfully and is a flight risk. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings concluded that attorneys for the National Immigration Justice Center and the American Civil Liber

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