ICE Is ‘Making War’ On Broadview — And It Must Stop, Suburban Mayor Says

BROADVIEW — Federal agents are endangering Broadview neighbors, police officers and firefighters with their “relentless” use of tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets against protesters outside the suburb’s ICE facility, its mayor wrote in a Friday letter to the Department of Homeland Security.

Organizers have been regularly demonstrating outside the ICE processing facility, 1903 Beach St. in Broadview, to protest increased federal immigration enforcement in Chicago and throughout Illinois. But those protests have turned violent in recent days as federal agents have repeatedly tear gassed and shot pepper balls and rubber bullets at organizers who try to block access to the building — and the agents’ actions are affecting neighbors and first responders, the mayor wrote.

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