Police arrested 14 women outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in Broadview Friday morning in the latest act of civil disobedience outside the west suburban facility that’s become a major flash point of opposition to the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz.”

Just after 9:30 a.m., the women hopped the concrete barricades that have proliferated around the processing center, sat down in the middle of the street and held hands. Illinois State Police troopers, Broadview police and Cook County sheriff’s police immediately walked over, hauled each person off the sidewalk and put handcuffs on them. None of the protesters appeared to resist their arrests, which took about five minutes to complete.

As police walked the women down Beach Street toward the

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