Steve Yale-Loehr was quoted by the Chicago Sun-Times in Questionable ICE ‘Wellness Check’ Caught on Video in Suburban Highwood. He said “wellness” checks by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are happening across the United States. “They’re using these so-called wellness checks as a subterfuge to find out if the sponsor is in the United States illegally or could be theoretically accused of harboring the individual and that’s gotten a lot of immigration lawyers very riled up.” Even during the wellness checks, Steve said, people still have the right to remain silent and not open the door to authorities unless presented with a court warrant. Everyone also has constitutional rights to video-record an encounter as long as they are not impeding or interfering with ICE agents, he said, commenting on a witness who was within her constitutional rights based on a video she posted on Instagram of a “wellness” check. “They can videotape things whether it’s on the sidewalk or in their car. That’s a basic constitutional right that everyone has.”
