CHICAGO (NewsNation) — Federal immigration agencies are accusing Illinois law enforcement agencies of refusing to assist with "violent crowds" that protested at a suburban Chicago Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center where federal law enforcement officers used tear gas and pepper balls against anti-ICE protesters last week.

But elected officials, including Gov. JB Pritzker, refute that characterization, saying that the feds are running a campaign of misinformation geared at pinning the blame for escalating tension between the two sides as a federal immigration crackdown known as Operation Midway Blitz continues into its third week.

The heated back-and-forth began Friday, when between 75 to 80 protesters gathered outside the boarded-up ICE processing center in Broadview,

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