I am still in debt from the last time they took me to the back room, did some kind of x-ray which detected my belt buckle. They declared the belt buckle was actually drugs up my ass, they strip searched me, and they then dragged me to two different hospitals chained and shackled and then sent me the bill when nothing was found. For this, the AUSA issued a retroactive search warrant, signed after they did it.
Sorry to hear about your traumatic encounter. Was this all after Trump's ICE enforcement changes? In any case, if you haven't already started this already, there are certainly US law firms that would love to take your case pro-bono, as in the US the government foots the bill for compelled medical exams unless the person was later found guilty. Also, the US Fourth Amendment requires warrants to be issues before searches except in exigent circumstances, so it was either exigent -- and a warrant wouldn't be legally required, or is an illegal warrant. This case sounds like it be a legal goldmine for you and your legal representative, especially now with all the public light being shed on invalid detainment.
I have contacted multiple attorneys including the one of Ashley Cervantes who had a nearly identical case (almost all same facts except she was vaginally raped by finger of doctor) who lost. They all said they do not take these kind of cases as they are too difficult to win. Cervantes IIRC still owes that bill as well.
If it were normal police I think you would be right but federal / CBP it is effectively impossible to overcome. One of the big things they do is play jurisdiction fuck-fuck games, if you start to win in federal court the judge will find a reason why it should have been in the state court and vice versa. The other thing they did in say when I lodged a complaint to the nursing board was they just played flip flop games that it was a police search when I complain of illegal health care, but when you complain the police search is illegal it gets shifted to just being health care, so they just flop a catch 22 to avoid being responsible for either.
>Was this all after Trump's ICE enforcement changes?
