Overview

• Reps. Danny K. Davis, Jesús “Chuy” Garcia, Delia Ramirez and Jonathan Jackson were turned away June 18 after arriving unannounced at the Broadview Processing Center.
• An ICE staff member refused to identify themselves and directed the lawmakers to request access via email through a slot in the facility’s barbed-wire gate.
• The delegation cited reports of inhumane conditions at the center and invoked congressional authority under the Department of Homeland Security funding law.
• On the same day, House Speaker Mike Johnson toured the Chicago ICE Field Office downtown and praised the agency’s enforcement efforts.
• Immigrant rights advocates held a prayer vigil outside a Chicago ICE office to protest ongoing raids and demand transparency in detention operations.