Overview

• Hours after HuffPost reported DHS communications indicating an evacuation of detainees and equipment from Broadview, a DHS spokesperson told the Chicago Tribune that claims of a temporary closure are false.
• Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson said she had not been notified of any relocation, and federal agencies offered no public details earlier on detainee counts or timelines.
• Protests continued Sunday outside the facility, where agents fired pepper balls at demonstrators blocking vehicles and at least one person was arrested, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
• A protester who was detained and released alleged overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, and abuse inside the building, accounts that have not been independently verified.
• ICE says its Chicago crackdown, dubbed “Midway Blitz,” has led to roughly 550 arrests in two weeks, and an ICE official previously told the Associated Press there is no end date in sight for the operation.