With the Texas National Guard training nearly 50 miles away, Broadview police maintained control of protesters outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center Wednesday.

Local authorities ordered about two dozen protesters to leave the village’s “free speech zone” — an area specifically designated for demonstrations against the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement mission — about 20 minutes after the city’s 6 p.m. curfew passed.

As the police counted down the time left to depart, officers threatened citations and arrests. The demonstrators begrudgingly retreated to the street corner.

They congregated again there for several minutes before police again ordered them to move.

“I’ll leave when you answer this question: Do we have rights?” a protester told a

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