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No troops in Broadview yet, but anti-ICE protestors say state and local police used intimidation tactics in crowd control * The TRiiBE

By Tonia Hill

No troops in Broadview yet, but anti-ICE protestors say state and local police used intimidation tactics in crowd control * The TRiiBE

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The TRiiBE is working in collaboration with indie investigative newsroom Unraveled Press and alt-weekly Chicago Reader to bring you confirmed sightings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agents in the Chicago area.

Weekly protests continued in suburban Broadview on Friday, a day after a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) blocking President Donald Trump from deploying the National Guard to Illinois. In a separate ruling Thursday, another federal judge ordered the removal of an unlawful fence erected last month by the feds to cordon off the Broadview ICE facility from anti-ICE demonstrators; deadline to remove the fence is 11:59 p.m. Tuesday.

Some Texas National Guard members arrived in the Chicagoland area this week before the TRO. Though National Guard troops were nowhere in sight in Broadview on Friday, the Illinois State Police were there to do crowd control and ensure traffic could access and pass through roads. State troopers, together with Broadview police officers and Cook County Sheriff's deputies, enforced the suburb's recently-designated "free speech zone," which has moved from Beach Street near the Broadview ICE facility to the middle of the block near Lexington Street.

The "No More Deportations" demonstration lasts from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on Fridays; though, some protestors arrive earlier and stay later. Initially, they assembled in the "free speech zone." Later on, protestors moved to nearby Harvard Street.

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