MILWAUKEE — Immigration advocates in Milwaukee joined a national wave of protests this weekend, demonstrating against the Trump administration's deployment of ICE and the National Guard in Chicago. The protests came after a deadly ICE operation in nearby Franklin Park, Illinois, that killed one man during an attempted arrest.

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside Milwaukee's Federal Building, organized by the Milwaukee Fights Back Coalition, a group of grassroots and labor organizations opposing the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.

The demonstration was sparked by an ICE operation Friday in Franklin Park, Illinois, where federal officials say an officer shot and killed Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez. Authorities said Villegas-Gonzalez allegedly injured an ICE agent during an a

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