Protest outside Broadview ICE facility erupts
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Federal officers in camouflage and riot gear clashed as demonstrators blocked vehicles in protest of Trump's expanding enforcement sweep.
In a chaotic scene at an immigration detention facility in the Chicago suburbs, Illinois Democratic candidates running for Congress said they were tear-gassed, shot with pepper balls and shoved to the ground by federal agents on Friday while protesting against President Donald Trump's immigration surge into the city.
"It is time to be willing to be manhandled by officers," she said. "Because guess what? The people in that facility are enduring even worse shit right now."
Federal agents have fired chemical agents at protesters outside the Broadview, Illinois, ICE processing facility and taken at least two people into custody.
New York Democrats demand to inspect conditions for detained migrants after a federal judge cited overcrowding and lack of sanitation.
About a dozen New York state and city officials were arrested at a protest inside 26 Federal Plaza, where ICE operates detention cells.
Tony Olson suffered a fractured skull and brain bleed from a 40 mm projectile while attending the June 9 rally protesting ICE activities.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When U.S. immigration agents swooped down to arrest a Salvadoran man in Mount Pleasant, a Washington area known for its Hispanic immigrant population, residents alerted neighbors who flocked to the scene, chanting at officers to get out before the man was hauled away.