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The family says that the man Chicago was arrested in a suburb of Chicago despite no criminal record from ICE on hastily produced arrest warrant

A new federal action has revealed new details of 22 people, which were taken into custody by the Chicago office of the US immigration and customs authority.

The lawsuit claims that the arrests, all of which were made in the first weeks of the Trump administration, were illegal. One of the families operated on Monday.

On January 26, ICE came to the house of a family in the southwestern suburb of Lyons with an arrest warrant after the family's son. Instead arrested, they arrested, arrested and imprisoned the father – who had the same name.

Seven weeks later, Abel Orozco Ortega remains custody.

This lawsuit, especially submitted to the US district court, includes the Ortega history and 21 others like it that claims illegal arractics as part of the new Trump management.

“All I ask is my husband's release”, “Oroga's wife Yolanda Orozco, sad through an interpreter.” He is not a criminal. “

Ortega is a local business owner who has been in the United States since the late 1990s.

“He was never arrested in his whole life,” said Orozco's son Eduardo Orozco. “He has no criminal record, no offenses, no crimes, no drug use, no duis.”

What exactly happened this morning?

The lawyers of the National Immigrant Justice Center say after agents recognized that the man held in the back seat was much older than the man they were looking for, they quickly produced a new arrest warrant for the father.

“When they had tied him up with handcuffs, tried to find out who he was and then judge that they believe that he was unlawful in the country,” said Mark Fleming, a National Immigrant Justice Center.

After Ortega was taken into custody, she had a medical episode. He was taken to a hospital and then brought to a prison in the facility near Terre Haute, Indiana – where he has stayed since then.

CBS News Chicago wanted to know Ortega's citizenship status.

“He currently has no lawful status in the United States, although he would be justified for a green card,” said Fleming.

When Ortega returned to the United States after visiting his dying father in Mexico in 2003, he was named in a distance order that was unaddressive.

This, his lawyers said, was enough to trigger the hastily produced January provisional warrant.

“They arrested people who shouldn't,” said Eduardo Orozco. “They say that they arrest thousands and thousands of hardcore criminals. My father is not a criminal.

But Ortega remains imprisoned with an unsafe future – you will probably stop from how a federal judge in Chicago looks at the trump government's slide wave for deportation.

The first hearing is planned for April 3.