BROADVIEW – The agents of the ice patrol and the borders have spread, spray balls with pepper shot down to demonstrators and detainees of demonstrators on Friday morning outside an immigrant treatment center in the suburbs of BroadView.
Large crowds gathered early Friday outside the barricaded installation of American immigration and customs, 1930, rue Beach in BroadView, to protest against the operation of the Trump Midway Blitz administration. Federal agents and demonstrators clashed several times; At one point, an agent has his weapon without coast when he was standing near the demonstrators, and the demonstrators said that they were sprayed with pepper without caused points.
“We were attacked by ice officers,” said A’Keisha, a demonstrator to lead a megaphone. “They pushed people on the ground and pulled us with pepper spray balls while we stayed peaceful.”
The agents and demonstrators clashed several times from early morning, the sparks coming while the agents were trying to drive vehicles – some apparently containing detainees – outside the installation while the demonstrators were trying to block the cars.
An altercation came just after 6 am when the agents fired on several demonstrators with pepper balls and owned others.
Around 8:30 a.m., the agents of the ice patrol and borders in unmarked vehicles opened the doors and slowly led to a crowd of demonstrators who blocked the exit.
The agents dressed from head to toe in military equipment – some wearing large cannons – launched cans of tear gas in the crowd while an officer on the roof of the building fired pepper balls.
The officers – who shouted the orders suffocated by their gas masks – pushed several demonstrators on the ground and on the hood of a glacial vehicle.
At least one officer was seen with his pistol without coastline and by his side while he was standing near the demonstrators.
“I saw shocking violence,” said Evanston mayor Daniel Biss, who was out with demonstrators. “I mean, throwing people on the ground, pepper balls, tear gas. … It seems free, right?” They try to intimidate. They have guys up there on the roof with cameras.
“They try to remind people that it is an administration which then calls and targets its political enemies for physical and economic violence.”
The activist Kat Abughazaleh – who, like Biss, presents himself to direct the 9th district of the Congress of Illinois – said that federal agents had thrown him on the ground.
“Thank you all for being here every Friday to support the marginalized people who are inside,” Abughazaleh told the crowd. “We must defend the federal government, so that everyone through us can see us take over our government from those who hate us.”
Federal immigration agents have arrested an unknown number of demonstrators.
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The application of the Immigration Act has seemed to accelerate locally in recent weeks while the federal government has launched operations halfway from Blitz, led by ICE, and as a whole, led by Border Patrol, which targets undocumented people in Chicago and the surrounding area.
Chicagoans have reported more observations from federal immigration agents and more detainees. In response, more and more people have presented themselves to demonstrations outside the BroadView Detention Center, hoping to help immigrant neighbors and raise awareness of what is happening.
Ice officials refused to say how many people the agency has arrested. But earlier this week, representative Lauren Underwood said she had been informed that 250 people had been detained since early September.
It is a story in development. Come back for updates.
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