ICE Chicago Operation Midway Blitz: Protesters gather at Broadview ICE facility Friday; SW Side tamale vendor held at facility
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BROADVIEW, Ill. (WLS) — Protesters gathered outside the Broadview ICE facility Friday morning.

This comes as immigration agents arrested a Southwest Side tamale vendor on Thursday.

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Laura Murillo is currently being held at the Broadview facility. She was taken into ICE custody while working near a Home Depot store.

Video shows the popular tamale vendor’s arrest, showing ICE agents taking her out of a vehicle before placing her in handcuffs, in the city’s Back of the Yards neighborhood.

RELATED: Operation Midway Blitz straining Broadview police resources as protests continue

Murillo’s daughter said her mother has been in the US for decades. The 54-year-old mother of four was calling her fiancĂ© as she was picked up by agents.

“She kept saying, ‘You’re hurting me you’re hurting me,’ and they just snatched the phone from her and the guy that was arresting her said, ‘Do you want the keys?’ and I said, ‘No I want her. We’re engaged,’ and he just shut the phone off,” Jaime Perez, Murillo’s fiancĂ©, said.

Her family said Murillo has no known criminal record.

This unfolded as Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks was also in Chicago.

RELATED: Tamale vendor among several arrested during ICE raid near Home Depot on SW Side: ‘Took everything’

He posted a video of himself on the ground with agents saying, “The mission here is as vital as anywhere else on the line. We will not allow criminal aliens to take root in our communities.”

ABC7 has reached out to ICE for comment on the arrest but they referred us to Border Patrol and not heard back.

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