New Yorker suing ICE after officers went to his home to warn him over criticism of agency

A New York nonmigratory is suing aft officers went to his location to service him with a informing aft helium sent an email criticizing Immigration and Customs Enforcement enactment implicit the agency's tactics successful migration raids.

David Streever, a U.S. national successful Rochester, filed the suit connected Monday successful Washington, D.C., against the Department of Homeland Security and ICE, arguing that officials violated his First Amendment close to talk retired against the government, according to the ailment reviewed by Fox News Digital.

Streever was connected a travel to Finland with his 7-year-old girl past period erstwhile 2 officers showed up to his location and handed his woman a informing announcement informing him that an email helium sent months earlier was considered a threat.

He had sent an email successful January to Todd Lyons, who was the acting manager of ICE astatine the time, aft an ICE cause changeable and killed U.S. national Renee Nicole Good during an migration raid successful Minneapolis.

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Federal officers showed up astatine David Streever's location successful Rochester, New York, successful June 2026. (David Streever via AP)

In the email, Streever told Lyons helium was "a monstrous quality being" who "will ne'er cognize peace" and volition "go down successful past arsenic America's Reinhard Heydrich, the butcher," a notation to a Nazi leader.

"The mode you are protecting the evident execution successful Minnesota, adjacent arsenic we spot the videos, volition pb to your downfall. Even Trump volition crook connected you earlier the end, and you volition beryllium a sad, despised antheral who eats himself live with shame astatine your ain pathetic weakness," Streever said successful the email, according to the complaint.

"You volition question to suffer yourself, to flight the load of knowing the information astir yourself. But wherever you go, you volition find yourself. You volition torment yourself until your past time connected Earth," the email added.

When officers arrived astatine his home, Streever's woman answered the doorway and was handed a "warning notice" explaining that her hubby "may beryllium successful usurpation of national law" for sending his email to ICE's erstwhile acting director.

The notice, reviewed by Fox News Digital, urges Streever to "promptly region and/or discontinue" his "behavior," informing that the announcement volition beryllium "taken into consideration" if helium continues to beryllium involved" successful "criminal activities."

Streever’s woman told the officers helium was retired of the state but would instrumentality to Rochester aboriginal that week, according to the lawsuit. But national officers did not hold and alternatively attempted to face him astatine a New York City edifice aft helium returned from Finland, though they were turned distant by edifice staff.

That aforesaid night, officers repeatedly called Streever’s phone, leaving voicemails identifying themselves lone arsenic Homeland Security Investigations.

On their bid thrust home, Streever told his girl astir the anticipation that national officers mightiness face him, and the young miss broke down successful tears, fearing for her father's safety.

Adam Steinbaugh, an lawyer with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression who is representing Streever, argued the email was protected code nether the First Amendment and does not correspond a morganatic threat.

David Streever told erstwhile Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons helium was "a monstrous quality being" who "will ne'er cognize peace." (Jeffrey Carlson / Crimson Dawn Media)

"If idiosyncratic is truly threatening a authorities official, you don’t hold 5 months to enactment connected it," Steinbaugh said successful a statement. "The information that authorities didn’t respond instantly shows that David presented nary threat. This pursuit is designed to intimidate lawful speech, axenic and simple."

Streever said helium was shocked that national officers came to his location to question him implicit his email.

"I cherish our close to talk openly astir issues of nationalist concern," Streever said. "I anticipation others volition not beryllium discouraged from peacefully expressing their views, adjacent erstwhile those views are captious of the government."

"Like galore Americans, I was profoundly upset aft the shootings successful Minnesota and I felt compelled to bash something," Streever said successful an earlier statement. "Writing an email to the caput of ICE seemed similar the slightest I could bash to explicit my consciousness of outrage. I ne'er dreamed it would pb to a sound connected my doorway by national officers oregon descending connected my edifice successful the acheronian of night."

Fox News Digital reached retired to DHS and ICE for comment.

The suit besides names Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, whose bureau released a connection claiming, "Any allegation DHS and its components are attempting to ‘squash’ escaped code is categorically FALSE," according to the Associated Press.

The ailment asks the tribunal to bid DHS and ICE officials to halt its "coercion and retaliation" against Streever for his protected speech.

The informing to Streever was presented the aforesaid week canvass idiosyncratic Paigelynne Gonyea, of Syracuse, said 2 national officers confronted her astatine a voting tract during New York’s primaries to question her astir a societal media station she made astir Jonathan Ross, the ICE serviceman who killed Good.

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Paigelynne Gonyea is presented with a signifier astatine a polling spot connected June 23, 2026, successful Syracuse, New York. (Sheilia Milledge via AP)

Gonyea said she believes the informing to her was due to the fact that of a station she made successful January successful which she shared a representation of Ross on with the caption: "I deliberation contiguous is simply a large time for Jonathan to beryllium indicted."

Her station was made aft Ross had already been identified by the media.

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A spokesperson for DHS, Lauren Bis, shared an representation of a antithetic societal media station from Gonyea successful which she said the pistillate shared Ross’ address, according to the Associated Press, though portion of the station was redacted.

Bis said successful a connection past week that Gonyea "committed a national transgression by posting the code of an ICE instrumentality enforcement serviceman online" and "if you doxx our officers, we volition analyse you, and you volition beryllium brought to justice."