The Illinois State Police (ISP) waded into a crowd of anti-ICE protesters in the Chicago suburb of Broadview and made several arrests Saturday for “unlawful assembly” after the small town’s mayor set a curfew of 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. for protest hours.

After weeks of increasingly violent protests outside the Broadview ICE facility, the Illinois State Police has been brought in after the Trump administration threatened to bring in Texas National Guard troops to safeguard the federal facility.

The ISP response came after Broadview’s Democrat Mayor Katrina Thompson moved to set a curfew for protests.

Thompson admitted to NewsNation that she is “in a position that every decision that I have to make, people are not going to like,” but pointed out that allowing the protesters to continue gatheri

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