BroadView Mayor Signs Executive Setting Fixed Protest Hours Outside Ice Facility

BroadView Mayor Katrina Thompson Signed an Executive Order Monday Setting Designated Protest Times Outside A Facility Used to Process Detailed Immigrants in the West Suburb.

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center at 1930 Beach Street Has Become a Hotbed for Protests Since President Donald Trump’s Administration Ramped Up His Deportation Campaign in the Chicago Last Under the Name “Operation Midway Blitz.” Sink then, have protests have arived at the facility in the Early Morning Hours, Some -AS 5 AM, and have clashed with federal autorities into the late hours.

The new Protest hours are from 9 to 6 pm Daily, according to the Executive Order, which Cites Public Safety Concerns. The Executive Order is in Effect Immediately and Will Be Until It is “demed no Longer Necessary to Protect Residents’ Health, Safety, and Welfare.”

Protests have innings been with federal agents spraying Tear Gas, Pepper Spray and Shooting Various forms of rubber pellets.

“People have to work, they have to get their children Ready for School, Our Businesses have to serve their Customers, and Our Residents with Developmental Disabilities, WHO HAVE SENSORY, HAVE SUFFERED EMOOTIONAL MELTDOWNS OF THE CHARONIC ENVIRONMENT. Protests Get Disruptive, ”Thompson Said in a Statement.

The Fixed Protest Hours COULD BRING INTO QUESTION FIRST AMENDMENT INFINGEMENT. The Village of BroadView’s Curfew Is 11 pm Sunday Through Thightsday, and Midnight Fridays and Saturdays.

American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois Spokesperson ed Yohnka Said the Organization Hopes “No One Limits Free Speech,” and he Said the Aclu Will Monitor How the Protest Will Be Enforced.

He Cast Blame for the Fixed Hours on the “Increasingly militarized Tactics and Behavior of Ice and Other Federal Officers.”

“These officers have tourned Dangerous weapons on protests, Fired projectiles indiscrrimately and use chemical agents against protests and journists,” Yohnka Said. “The Solutions to this Situation is for Ice and the Trump Administration to End the escalation of these tactics bot at broadView and use civilization enforcement in NeighBorhods across the area.”

In a staff, the chicago activist coalition for justice said it “Heavily Disagree (s)” with the designated protest.

“It Secretly Silences Our Voices to Be Heard,” Rabbi Michael Ben Yosef, Leader of the Coalition, Said in a Statement. “This Executive Order by the Mayor is a Win for the Trump Administration Who Rejects Our Presence as Activists for Human Rights.”

Last Week, The Illinois State Police Stepped in to Control Protest Crowds and Erected Concrete Barriers to “Designated Protest Areas” outside the facility’s main entrance on Beach Street and Near Another entrance on 25th Avenue.

Protests Marched down 25th Avenue Saturday Night and TRIED ENTERING INTERSTATATE 290, CAUSCIG STATE TO TEMPPORRILELY BLOCK THE INTERSTATE EXIT, while Avenue was closed to Traffic Between Lexington Street and Roosevelt Road for the Protest.

In another recent instance, federal agents in military dress chased two protests ACROSS Traffic on 25th Avenue and Into A Nearby Resident’s Yard, Breaking A Piece of their Shooting Rubber Baton Rounds. One Federal Agent appeared to injure Himself During the Chase and Was Helped Back Across the Street by Another Agent, Who Pointed A Tase at Motorists, Protests and Journists asrair Way Back to the Ice Facility.

A Business Next Door to the Ice Facility Last Week Placed Wooden Barricades Outside Its Building in An Efffort to Keep Protests – and Clashes BetWen and Ice Agents – off its property.

The Village of BroadView Last Week Filed A Lawsuit Against the US Department of Homeland Security and ICE, Cituous Public Safety Concerns Over an 8-Fence Erected Outside the Immigration of Facility Facility Street Entrans Last Month.

Thompson has spoken out in recent weeks against federal agents’ use of chemical agents aging proters outside the facility, which is tucked in industrial corridor, with residency homes lining the 25th Avenue entrance. She previously Called on Russell Hott, Director of the Ice Chicago Field Office, to Stop “Making War on My Community,” Saying the “Relationless Deployment” of Chemical Agents and Rubber Bullets Nearby Residents and First Responders.

“The Residents, Our Business (ES), all of the Visitors – we’re respondible for say,” Thompson Said in a recent intervention with Wbez. “We’re Responsible for the protests, their well-being, their safety. We are respectible for the Journists that come to our town.”

In Her Statement Monday, Thompson Said and Supports the Protests’ First Amendment Rights, but she emphasized the need to balance Those with public safety.

“I Support Their (Protests) Cause. But the repeated clashes with Ice agents in ours aus causni enormous disruptions in the Quality of my residences what Rights I have taken to protest. We live here. said.

The Village of BroadView Board of Trustees Were Scheduled to Meet at 6:30 PM Monday.

Editor’s Note: This Story has been updated with a staff from the Chicago Activist Coalition for Justice