Tensions flared on Sept. 26 outside an ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois, as protesters clashed with federal agents during riots against the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News that law enforcement made 17 arrests during the morning of the protest in Broadview and that more arrests could occur.
More than 200 protesters gathered near the gate in front of the facility, while dozens more crowded another entrance, chanting “Arrest ICE, Shoot ICE,” according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
“These violent threats and smears about ICE must stop. There is no place in American politics for violence,” McLaughlin said in a statement, while urging Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to condemn the riots….