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Recent reporting and official releases show multiple instances where people protesting or interfering with ICE actions have been arrested on obstruction-related charges, and agencies have publicly fra...
The reporting assembled in the provided analyses documents multiple incidents where ICE agents or related federal officers deployed chemical irritants such as at protests and in street encounters, but...
Available reporting on the Broadview/Chicago-area protests against ICE shows widespread volunteer-driven activism, arrests and clashes but does not report that protesters receive stipends or are paid ...
Federal agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) used during multiple clashes with protesters outside the Broadview, Illinois, detention facility on September 19, 2025, and the agenc...
Reports from multiple outlets in 2025 document children in ICE custody facing shortages of clean drinking water, delayed or denied medical care, poor hygiene, overcrowding and prolonged stays beyond e...
There is no single, authoritative count of “the number of lawsuits against ICE” in the available reporting; recent coverage documents multiple, distinct lawsuits and at least several class actions nat...
There is clear, documented evidence that ICE and related federal immigration agents have deployed chemical agents — tear gas, pepper balls, and pepper spray — in multiple operations that have affected...
ICE’s formal detention-use-of-force standard names oleoresin capsicum (OC) spray—“pepper spray”—as an authorized intermediate force weapon and requires staff training on use of force, but public repor...
Reports from news outlets, legal groups and advocacy organizations show ICE is increasingly arresting and detaining people in U.S. cities — including incidents involving people who are homeless, shelt...
Multiple contemporaneous news items from mid- to late-September 2025 report that federal immigration agents deployed against protesters outside the ICE detention facility in Broadview, near Chicago, o...
Available sources do not provide a single, definitive national count of “how many women have been arrested by ICE”; instead reporting and agency data show large, shifting totals of people arrested or ...
A Chicago-area pastor, Rev. David Black, was struck in the head and elsewhere by projectiles fired by federal immigration officers during a protest outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview; mu...
The term “ 2025” refers to an array of complaints, investigations and public reporting this year that together allege hundreds of instances of physical, sexual and medical mistreatment of people in . ...
The evidence in the provided reporting does support the specific claim that ICE agents used pepper spray on Chicago Police; contemporary accounts describe federal agents deploying tear gas, firing non...
Federal agents in multiple recent incidents have deployed pepper balls and other “less-lethal” munitions at ICE facilities and protests — with video showing strikes to the head and close-range shots t...
You can and people and groups have sued ICE in federal court for unlawful detention, using approaches like class actions, habeas petitions, Fourth Amendment and due-process claims, and Federal Tort Cl...
Arrest at an ICE facility does not automatically bar someone from flying, but criminal charges, convictions, or immigration detention can create real obstacles — detention prevents travel and certain ...
Multiple news accounts and local law-enforcement releases show that , with published tallies including 68 arrests connected to protests at Broadview, Illinois since early October and localized inciden...
There are multiple news accounts from September–November 2025 documenting confrontations between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel and protesters, clergy, and community members, incl...
Available reporting from multiple outlets covering the September 2025 clashes at the Broadview/Chicago-area ICE facility shows ; instead, the verified accounts describe ICE deploying tear gas, pepper ...