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 gathering all through the night was affecting the quality of life of local residents who live in the neighborhoods across the street from the industrial area where the ICE facility is located.
Thompson ruled that protesters may only gather between the hours of 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. This new rule gave the ISP the pretext to clear out protests on Saturday evening.
ISP officers arrested at least 15 protesters on Saturday evening and have set up a large presence outside the ICE facility.
Activist Dr. Alli Muhammad, who claims to represent the Mississippi-based Revolutionary Black Panther Party, says he and other anti-ICE protesters are angered by Mayor Thompson’s curfew.
“We’re agitated by this restriction, by the way,” Muhammad told the media. “We feel that the mayor of Broadview, she considers herself an ally, but we’re not comfortable with this 9 to 6 curfew, so we’re going to present this cease and desist to remove the curfew.”
Despite the anger, the crowd thinned to only a few by 7 p.m. on Saturday.
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