BROADVIEW, Ill. (WGN) — Demonstrators gathered Saturday outside the ICE processing center in Broadview, voicing their opposition to a new immigration enforcement effort the Trump administration has named “Operation Midway Blitz.”
The rally, organized by Revcom Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity Chicago and the Revolutionary Black Panther Party, included a press conference where members pledged to continue their fight against federal immigration operations in Chicagoland.
Protesters arrived with signs denouncing immigration enforcement and vowed to keep showing up at the facility, rain or shine.
“Today we gather in solidarity. This is all of our fight, not one group,” one protester told the crowd.
On Friday, Katrina Thompson, the Mayor of the Village of Broadview, sent a letter to I