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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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
Reverend David Black alleges he was struck in the head and body by while praying during a protest outside the Broadview, Illinois ICE facility on September 19, 2025; video evidence and multiple news r...
Protests against ICE, President Trump, and what demonstrators call rising “fascism” have occurred across a wide range of U.S. cities through mid‑ to late‑2025, with large national mobilizations and lo...
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...
Members of Congress have reported repeated denials of access to ICE detention sites — including specific incidents in Aurora, Adelanto, Broadview, Baltimore and Newark — while ICE and DHS have issued ...
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...