This is part of our series of daily recaps of ICE activity in the Chicago region. Have a tip we should check out? Email newsroom@blockclubchi.org.

CHICAGO — Hundreds of people arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents around Chicago over the past few months could be released, according to a new federal ruling.

On Tuesday night, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings ruled that ICE agents have been violating a 2022 consent decree banning warrantless arrests unless agents have probable cause to believe someone is in the United States unlawfully and is a flight risk.

Cummings concluded that attorneys for the National Immigration Justice Center and the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois provided enough evidence to show that ICE arrested 22 people without a warrant in viol

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