Overview

• Video from early Friday shows masked, armed staff moving protesters outside the Broadview processing center, blocking vehicles and detaining an individual before returning behind the gate.
• Organizers staged morning demonstrations with plans to return in the evening, following prior tense encounters that activists say included the use of chemical agents last week.
• Broadview's mayor said federal officials plan to use the facility as the primary processing location for Chicago-area detainees this fall.
• Relatives seeking updates report being turned away and cite a roughly 72-hour delay in ICE’s online detainee locator, with advocates also reporting rapid out-of-state transfers.
• Families say many arrests occurred during traffic stops, while an NBC 5 court-records review raises questions about DHS portrayals of some arrestees, and one family reported two uncles were deported to Mexico.