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DHS Reports 11 Arrests, Weapons Seized as Broadview ICE Clashes Intensify

Civil-rights groups say ICE made warrantless arrests under Operation Midway Blitz.

Federal agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection walk along West Wacker Drive in the Loop, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025, in Chicago. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
Miguel Angel Garcia Medina, 31, was one of the three detainees killed or wounded in the Sept. 24 attack at Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office shooting. Garcia, who is now in critical condition, is expecting his fifth child with his wife, Stephany Gauffeny.
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The Rev. Carmelo Mendez, center, walks in a procession for migrants from St. Oscar Romero in the New City neighborhood to St. Rita of Cascia in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood as part of an observance of National Migration Week by the Archdiocese of Chicago on Sept. 24, 2025. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)

Overview

  • Federal agents used tear gas, pepper balls and baton or rubber rounds outside the Broadview processing center during weekend confrontations.
  • DHS said two guns were confiscated and a possible explosive device is under investigation after the Saturday night arrests.
  • U.S. Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino led agents at the site and joined downtown patrols as dozens of officers fanned out across Chicago.
  • A new NIJC–ACLU filing alleges 27 unlawful, warrantless arrests in the region, with a federal hearing set for Friday.
  • Broadview officials accused ICE of retaliatory threats, which DHS called “made up,” while journalists were detained and local police opened a probe into chemical agents fired toward a reporter’s vehicle.