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Guard Deployment Paused, Fence Removal Ordered as Clergy-Led Protests Grow at Broadview

Religious leaders were denied entry to deliver Communion, with detainee accounts in Massachusetts intensifying scrutiny.

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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

  • A federal appeals court temporarily blocked National Guard deployment in Illinois for two weeks as demonstrations continued outside the ICE processing center in Broadview.
  • U.S. District Judge LaShonda A. Hunt ordered the metal fence outside the Broadview facility removed, giving officials until 11:59 p.m. Tuesday to comply, and crews placed barricades in front of the fence on Saturday.
  • Hundreds to about a thousand people joined a faith-led procession from St. Eulalia Catholic Church, but ICE denied clergy requests to bring Holy Communion to detainees after Illinois State Police relayed the request.
  • Illinois State Police pushed back crowds and made arrests during the protests, with local reports indicating at least 15 people were taken into custody on Saturday.
  • In Burlington, Massachusetts, more than 100 people staged a 14-hour protest highlighting a released teen’s account of overcrowding and concrete-floor sleeping at an ICE holding site, while the agency says such facilities are meant for short-term intake.