Suburban cemetery workers arrested by ICE join nationwide effort to hold federal agents accountable

Two suburban cemetery workers arrested by federal immigration agents last fall are suing the federal government as a part of nationwide ACLU effort attempting to hold U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees accountable. The two workers, both U.S. citizens, allege they were maced and wrongly arrested by agents last October while on the job at Concordia Cemetery in Forest Park. They filed their claims in March under the Federal Tort Claims Act, which allows people to seek financial…