Broadview, Illinois, is approaching a full-blown state of insurrection as local officials openly side with anti-ICE protesters attacking the federal immigration detention facility in that town.

Earlier today, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited the Broadview detention facility, where she was greeted by unruly protesters.

The conflict at Broadview has been ongoing since shortly after Immigration and Customs Enforcement kicked off Operation Midway Blitz on September 8. The first major run-in between federal agents and protesters took place on September 19, and since then, the situation has escalated. It falls into a pattern of increasing violence at ICE facilities, which have included gunfire and fatalities.

BACKGROUND:

Watch: Democrat Congressional Candidate Gets a Close-Up View of the Pavement After Trying to Block ICE – RedState

Watch: Anti-ICE Crew Finds Out It’s Not a Good Idea to Block Agents in Broadview, Illinois – RedState

Escalation: Now Chicago Anti-ICE Rioters Are Carrying Guns – RedState

When Secretary Noem departed the area, she stopped by city hall and was not only barred from entering, but she was also shouted at by the stooge holding the door.

My team and I were just blocked from accessing the Village of Broadview Municipal Building in Illinois. We were stopping for a quick bathroom break. This is a public building. The Village of Broadview receives at least $1 million in federal funding every year.

This is how JB… https://t.co/vHxjSVh8LT

— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) October 3, 2025

During Secretary Noem’s visit, Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills was letting his alligator mouth write checks his canary butt would never be able to cash.

He claims, without proof, that ICE has acted illegally to erect fencing to keep obviously violence-prone demonstrators away from the detention facility. Mills says he knows his job, which has yet to be demonstrated, and when asked, “Are you guys ready to break that fence down, if you have to?” He answered:

We are.

Broadview is already clearly in violation of the Insurrection Act (10 U.S. Code § 253 (2)). This happens when the local government “opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.” This section is just as applicable today in Broadview as it was in any KKK dominated part of the former Confederacy during the Reconstruction Era. The police chief’s threat to attempt, though it would be a laughable attempt, to remove ICE-erected barricades on the grounds that there was no permit, and that his emergency services are staffed with low-functioning cretins who can’t figure out how to navigate around a single cross-street, is an obvious attempt to obstruct operations and put federal staff and detainees at risk.

If Proud Boys could be arrested for seditious conspiracy while not even in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021, this guy should be hauled off in handcuffs after a 6 a.m. visit by an FBI SWAT team.

The show of force by ICE and federal agents around the country is not having the desired effect because not only are the protesters receiving living quarters and perhaps a stipend for their participation, but the local governments in Portland, Oregon, and Broadview, as well as other places, are tacitly allied with the demonstrators. Unless and until the federal government starts treating them as what they are, that would be insurrectionists, then the demonstrators will only feel more emboldened toward violence.

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