ICE in Chicago: Protesters clash with ICE outside Broadview facility amid Operation Midway Blitz immigration crackdown
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CHICAGO (WLS) — Another protest against the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement actions in Chicago is taking place outside an ICE facility in Broadview Friday.

Organizers say they plan to demonstrate weekly at the boarded up facility as long as ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ is underway.

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Protesters gathered early Friday, where there were tense moments between crowds and ICE agents, with pepper balls fired at the crowd.

ICE was seen taking two of the demonstrators into custody after protesters tried to block vehicles from leaving the facility.

“We have here a federal government that is actively working against its people, that is doing everything possible to divide them,” Alderman Andre Vasquez said. “They are building the same system that they are going to use for everyone else.”

Friday’s protest comes a week after video appears to show ICE agents using pepper balls on demonstrators outside this same facility.

Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss said he was in the crowd when tear gas was fired.

The latest ICE arrest ABC7 are aware of happened at Elgin Community College where federal agents allegedly took a student who is undocumented into custody in a parking lot outside a building on the main campus.

RELATED: Advocates concerned over ICE tactics near Chicago Home Depot

The Trump administration has said it’s going after undocumented people with a criminal history but the circumstances around this arrest are still unclear.

ABC7spoke with one student anonymously who says they are worried about this immigration activity making its way to college campuses.

“I feel like students should be allowed to feel safe and this should stop happening on college campuses,” the student said.

Elgin Community College student taken into ICE custody, school says

Elgin Community College Faculty Association President Dan Kernler responding writing, “Our campus community is in shock today. College students and their families should never be separated just because they came to class. Detaining students on campus creates lasting harm and has no place in our communities. Learning and growth can only happen without fear.”

ABC7 has reached out to ICE for comment on the student allegedly detained in Elgin but have not heard back.

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