>Last June, two investigators employed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) showed up at David Streever's house in Rochester, New York. Streever was not home, so they left him a note.

>That note, presented as an official warning from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is at the center of a First Amendment lawsuit that Streever filed last month, alleging that ICE agents investigated and threatened him based on his constitutionally protected criticism of their boss. This month, the government responded to Streever's lawsuit, confirming his allegations while attempting to rebut them.

>On January 26, two days after DHS agents fatally shot Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti, Streever sent an angry email to Todd Lyons, then the acting ICE director. Streever called Lyons "a monstrous human being," likened him to the genocidal Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich, and predicted that he would be haunted by "shame at your own pathetic weakness" in defending the Pretti shooting "until your last day on Earth."

>Streever's evaluation of Lyons was harsh, to say the least. But he did not say anything that could reasonably be construed as a threat of violence.

>Brent Goodwin, assistant director for investigations at ICE's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), nevertheless claims Streever's email "had potential threatening undertones" and "potentially present[ed] a safety concern." Because "ICE OPR did not have any information about Mr. Streever when the email came in," Goodwin says in an August 5 declaration, it "determined that it needed to conduct an ICE investigation."

>What happened next makes little sense if ICE's investigators, who did not even try to contact Streever until five months after his email, were attempting to resolve a legitimate "safety concern." But their actions are completely understandable if they were trying to intimidate an ICE critic.

>"YOU MAY BE IN VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW," said the "WARNING NOTICE" that two agents left with Streever's wife in Rochester on June 23. It cited two statutes, one dealing with threats of violence against federal officials, the other making it a crime to reveal "restricted personal information" about them with the intent to intimidate or incite violence against them.

>Streever had not violated either of those laws. But the notice said ICE had "reason to believe" his email to Lyons "may constitute a violation of Title 18 of the United States Code," which includes more than 1,500 offenses.

>The document asked Streever to "promptly remove and/or discontinue the aforementioned behavior." It added that "receipt of this Notice will be taken into consideration, should you continue to be involved in any criminal activities described above."

>In addition to delivering the notice, DHS agents unsuccessfully tried to intercept Streever at John F. Kennedy International Airport when he returned from a trip to Finland with his 7-year-old daughter on June 25. They also repeatedly tried to contact him in person and by telephone at the New York hotel where he stayed that night.

>After that, Goodwin says, ICE gave up, closing the case on June 30 because "all investigative leads" had been "exhausted." ICE did that even though its agents had never managed to interview Streever so they could determine "whether or not [he] presented a threat," which Goodwin describes as the object of the investigation.

>Seeking dismissal of Streever's lawsuit, the government's lawyers concede his email to Lyons "put words to his disagreements with a current administration official." In other words, they admit he was investigated because of speech protected by the First Amendment.

>Other ICE critics have received similar treatment. The Wall Street Journal reports that the agency "has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet" that tracks online speech to identify more targets.

>ICE's retaliatory campaign, Streever's lawyers at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression warn, threatens the freedom to criticize police conduct without fear of arrest. Four decades ago, the Supreme Court described that ability as "one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state."


There are a lot of inline links to other articles and info about the lawsuit in the original reason webpage. I'm not going to copy paste them all here.
Just open the link and read it yourself if you want to see them

>>1531051
>reason.com
Disregarded. Also, even if this were true, it was okay when Biden investigated parents at schools who were upset about the DEI and trans shit - As possible domestic terrorists! So what's the issue?

>So what's the issue?
You're an esl shill

>>1531051
>Reason.com
>Not NY Post
Well, you tried,

Still thinking we have a functioning Constitution.
I swear, this is too cute for words.

>>1531051
>>1531124
>threaten federal agents
>get a warning
>WAAAAAAAHHHHH THIS IS NAZI GERMANY

>>1531125
Where's the threat

>>1531142
Likewise.

>>1531112
The conservative Russia (redundant) still thinks he's human.

>>1531051
Just because it’s Constitutionally Protected doesn’t mean we cannot look into it as a policing matter.

>>1531125
>threaten federal agents
Didn't happen. Read, nigger, read.

>>1531324
Likewise. ICE didn't threaten him.

>>1531331
I didn't say they did. Neither does the article.

>send thinly veiled threat to federal agents
>"wowww how was I supposed to know that would lead to me being investigated!"
Clown world honk honk

>>1531337
>>1531324

ESL Shill's Clown Fetish, Unveiled
More at 10

>>1531051
Faggot threatens:
>"until your last day on Earth."
Retarded homo antifas
Ice Cube Reacts to Tour Bus Being Firebombed
https://www.newsweek.com/entertainment/ice-cube-tour-bus-firebombed-portland-10796536
Violent anti-ICE protesters swarm Minnesota hotel they believe is housing fed agents — one officer left bloodied
https://nypost.com/2026/01/25/us-news/anti-ice-protesters-swarm-st-paul-hotel-they-believe-is-housing-fed-agents/
1 detainee killed and 2 others critically injured in Dallas ICE facility, Homeland Security says
https://apnews.com/article/ice-facility-shooting-dallas-immigration-d49f76ffc95572970ede58ef15769fe4

And this isn't even a complete list of homosexual terrorism against ICE.

>ICE protecting us from "the worst" again.
ICE ARRESTS HAITIAN PASTOR

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has detained a "beloved" Springfield, Ohio, pastor Thursday morning, according to a local faith-based organization.

G92, which advocates for their immigrant neighbors, said in a news release that agents detained Gilbert Joubert Adrien at a South Limestone Street gas station Aug. 20.

“The community is really deeply saddened,” said G92 member Marjory Wentworth. “It makes everyone feel even more vulnerable.”

The release did not state Adrien’s church for “security reasons.”

Vilés Dorsainvil, executive director of the Haitian Support Center, said he speaks with Adrien all the time. They share their faith and distribute items to people in Springfield, working together as pastors and community leaders.

>>1531419
So the worst immigrants ICE can go after are church pastors who overstayed their Visa?
Why are we paying these morons so much to murder Americans then?

>>1531420
Gays aren't American, and murder only applies to humans, which gays are also not.

1531421
You have to be 18+ to post on 4chan

>>1531112
>Disregarded. Also, even if this were true, it was okay when Biden investigated parents at schools who were upset about the DEI and trans shit - As possible domestic terrorists! So what's the issue?
when did he do that? what did he investigate them for?

Source?

>>1531112
>>1531119

whats wrong with reason.com as a source? what sources are acceptable to you?

>>1531425
ESL shill doesn't accept any sources with a liberal bias
Since reality has a well known liberal bias, any fact based reporting is right out

>>1531425
NY Post.

>>1531468
What's wrong with reason.com as a source? Is it connected to the NY Post somehow?

>>1531424
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-doj-white-house-coordinated-controversial-school-boards-memo-documents-reveal

>>1531470
It's not the NY Post.

>>1531478
>Garland issued a directive on Oct. 4, 2021, mobilizing the FBI to assist local law enforcement partners with a "disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence" against school administrators.
Yeah because none of you retards every made any threats-
>https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-education-threats/
>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/us/politics/school-board-threats.html
>https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2021/11/hudson-mayor-aided-abetted-and-incited-violent-threats-against-school-board-over-baseless-child-porn-claim-but-will-not-face-charges-prosecutor-finds.html

>>1531478
That doesn't say he investigated parents who were just upset about DEI.

>>1531051
its a new yorker whose probably a reddt cunt. just subpeona anyone on rddt news who you find is putting out terrorist sympathy and lynch them. let the chilling effect handle the rest