Overview
- Protesters and law enforcement faced off again outside the Broadview immigration processing center on Oct. 24, with participants reporting tear gas and rubber bullets and Illinois State Police confirming 14 recent arrests.
- Federal immigration activity spread into Chicago neighborhoods, prompting a soft lockdown at A. N. Pritzker School and the detention of two students in Little Village, according to local officials and media reports.
- Witnesses in Little Village described agents in military-style gear deploying tear gas, while Chicago police reported arresting one person and a security guard was also taken into custody, according to reports.
- U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis ordered Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino to attend a Tuesday hearing and sit for a deposition over alleged violations of a temporary restraining order limiting certain federal tactics near protests and media.
- President Donald Trump’s National Guard deployment order for the region remains blocked by a federal court, as faith-led weekly vigils that began in 2007 continue and protesters reject DHS portrayals of them as violent agitators.