Cook County and state law enforcement agencies are using barricades to set up “designated protest areas” around a federal facility used to process detained immigrants in suburban Broadview to address public safety concerns.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement site, 1930 Beach Street, has become the center of recurring protests since President Donald Trump in early September launched “Operation Midway Blitz,” an aggressive deportation campaign in the Chicago area.

Barricades will be placed on each side of Beach Street, from Lexington Street to nearly the silver wire fence that the feds erected Sept. 23 across Beach Street, to keep protesters off the roadway and to allow vehicles to pass through.

The barricades will “protect the health and safety of all individuals, including nea

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