Overview

• Footage posted by commentator Benny Johnson shows a man holding the Broadview Municipal Building door shut as Noem’s group asks to use a restroom and a voice replies, “No, you cannot.”
• Noem condemned the refusal in a post on X, calling it “absolutely shameful” and noting that Broadview receives at least $1 million in federal funding each year.
• She said her team was in the area to conduct operations to apprehend people with criminal convictions and that city police would not let them use the restroom.
• Broadview spokesperson David Ormsby said Noem appeared unannounced seeking a meeting while the mayor was out, added that the mayor later went to the ICE site but was told the secretary was unavailable, and expressed distress that bathrooms at the ICE facility were unavailable.
• Noem was seen earlier at the nearby ICE facility where protests have persisted during the Trump administration’s “Midway Blitz” operations, as Gov. J.B. Pritzker criticized the federal approach and a state spokesperson alleged agents used chemical agents and arrested a reporter.