Overview
- Homeland Security publicly denied reports of a temporary shutdown, saying the Broadview processing center remains operational and citing 16 protest arrests.
- Early Tuesday, Broadview police blocked the street and a tall wire fence was erected around the facility, even as a handful of demonstrators kept vigil.
- Agents have repeatedly fired pepper balls, rubber rounds and chemical agents in recent days to clear driveways, and nearly 50 elected officials signed a letter condemning the tactics.
- DHS says Operation Midway Blitz has led to 500-plus detentions regionwide, while advocates and detainees allege crowded, unsanitary conditions that ICE calls false.
- Organizers shifted to daily rallies aiming to close the site, CBP’s claims of assault-on-officer arrests drew prosecutorial record discrepancies, and Illinois officials rejected DHS accusations of failing to assist.