Broadview Police Conducting 3 Criminal Investigations Into ICE Activity at Facility

Small Illinois Village Picks a Big Fight With ICE

"We don't want them here." The mayor of the small village of Broadview, Illinois, in west suburban Chicago, told reporters Tuesday that her small town is not pleased to be the site of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center. The site has been targeted by protesters since ICE enforcement activities recently increased there. Local ABC 7 reported that surrounded by local police and fire chiefs, and former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoo…

Broadview officials open three criminal investigations into ICE activity, facility; demand fence be removed – CBS2 (Chicago)

"The relentless deployment of tear gas, pepper spray and mace at the ICE facility is endangering nearby village residents, harming police officers, harming firefighters and American citizens exercising their First Amendment rights," Mayor Katrina Thompson said.

Broadview police investigate several incidents at ICE facility

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson on Tuesday denounced displays of force at the ICE processing facility in the western suburb.

Broadview police conducting 3 criminal investigations into ICE activity at facility

BROADVIEW, Ill. — Broadview police are conducting three criminal investigations into actions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at their facility in the western suburb. Mayor Katrina Thompson held a press conference Tuesday, along with other Broadview officials and mayors of several other communities, to call on ICE to stop, what she says, are hostile actions by agents. The village is also asking that a fence around the fac…

ICE ‘making war’ on Broadview, says mayor

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson said in a letter to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Friday that ICE agents operating an immigrant detention center in her village “are making war on my community. And it has to stop.”  She reiterated Broadview’s demand that a security fence which extended the perimeter of the Beach Street facility be dismantled.  She said that without a proper permit the fencing had been “illegally constructed.” Fire …