Twenty-one people were detained after faith leaders protested outside the ICE processing center in Broadview, Illinois, officials said. A Cook County Sheriff’s press release declined to identify those held; a Reuters photo showed minister Michael Woolf among the detainees. The facility has been a flashpoint since ICE intensified operations in September, prompting clashes and the use of tear gas and other crowd-control measures. A federal judge recently curtailed some tactics, and another ordered 13 detainees released after finding ICE violated a 2022 agreement limiting warrantless arrests.
21 Detained as Faith Leaders Protest Outside Broadview ICE Processing Center
Twenty-one people were detained after faith leaders protested outside the ICE processing center in Broadview, Illinois, officials said. A Cook County Sheriff’s press release declined to identify those held; a Reuters photo showed minister Michael Woolf among the detainees. The facility has been a flashpoint since ICE intensified operations in September, prompting clashes and the use of tear gas and other crowd-control measures. A federal judge recently curtailed some tactics, and another ordered 13 detainees released after finding ICE violated a 2022 agreement limiting warrantless arrests.
03:01 AM, 11/15/2025Politics
Protest at Broadview ICE Processing Center Leads to 21 Detentions
CHICAGO — Twenty-one people were detained Friday after faith leaders staged a protest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing center in Broadview, Illinois, authorities said. The Cook County Sheriff’s Office, in a press release, said it would not disclose identities or charges; a Reuters photograph showed Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church in Evanston, among those taken into custody.
The Broadview facility has become a focal point for activists opposing the Trump administration’s intensified immigration enforcement in Chicago, a Democratic stronghold that limits cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Since ICE stepped up operations in September, demonstrations have frequently escalated into clashes with law enforcement, during which officers have deployed tear gas, less-lethal rounds, flash-bang devices and pepper balls.
In October, a federal judge imposed limits on several crowd-control tactics used by ICE and Border Patrol in Chicago, including restrictions on deploying tear gas without adequate warning. Separately, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings ordered 13 people detained by ICE in the Chicago area to be released by noon local time after finding that ICE violated a 2022 agreement that restricts warrantless arrests and bars using routine traffic stops as a pretext for detention.
The Department of Homeland Security, ICE’s parent agency, did not immediately respond to requests for comment about Friday’s protest. The arrests underscore continuing friction between federal immigration enforcement and local advocacy groups in Chicago, and the ongoing legal scrutiny of ICE tactics in the region.