An Oak Park attorney was arrested by federal agents outside his child’s elementary school Monday morning for allegedly impeding immigration enforcement agents.
Scott Sakiyama told Wednesday Journal he was arrested after driving behind an Immigration and Customs Enforcement van and honking his horn and blowing a whistle in an effort to identify the unmarked car as an immigration enforcement vehicle. Sakiyama, a civil litigation attorney, had also been arrested by Broadview police the week before while he said he was taking photos of vehicles leaving the Broadview ICE detention facility.
Sakiyama has been monitoring ICE activity and advocating for an end to the agency’s mass deportation efforts in Chicagoland over recent weeks, including by serving as a media spokesperson for the family of Paul Ivery after the intellectually disabled Oak Park man was arrested at a Broadview protest and his since-dismissed federal assault case drew significant press attention…