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Guard Deployment Paused, Clergy Denied Entry at Broadview as Protests Grow

Court rulings have narrowed federal options at Broadview, from a fence removal order to a pause on National Guard deployment.

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The Rev. Larry Dowling processes with the Eucharist in a monstrance to begin the Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership’s eucharistic procession from St. Eulalia Catholic Church in Maywood to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in Broadview, on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025. Eucharistic ministers, including Dowling, later attempted to serve Communion to detainees in the ICE processing facility. (Dominic Di Palermo/Chicago Tribune)
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Overview

  • An appeals court temporarily blocked deploying National Guard troops in Illinois for two weeks, allowing federal control to continue without activation near the Broadview ICE center.
  • The Department of Justice asked for an immediate stay of that ruling, arguing troops are needed to protect federal officers during enforcement operations.
  • Roughly 1,000 participants joined a eucharistic procession from Maywood to the Broadview facility, where ICE denied clergy requests to deliver Communion, leading to a service held outside.
  • U.S. District Judge LaShonda A. Hunt ordered ICE to remove a fence outside the Broadview site by Tuesday; the barrier remained in place Saturday as crews added barricades.
  • Protests continued at Broadview with authorities reporting arrests on Saturday, while a separate 14-hour demonstration in Burlington, Massachusetts, highlighted detainee accounts of crowded cells and sleeping on concrete floors.