A New York author has sued the Department of Homeland Security after federal agents showed up at his home and tracked him to a hotel over an email he sent criticising ICE's former acting director.
David Streever filed a 27-page lawsuit in federal court in Washington, DC on Monday, arguing that Homeland Security retaliated against him for a January email to then-acting ICE Director Todd Lyons calling Lyons a 'monstrous human being'. The suit, brought with help from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), names Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and several agents as defendants. It centres on a visit agents paid to Streever's Rochester home in June, months after the email, while he was travelling in Finland with his young daughter.
