A facility in Broadview, a mostly Black suburb, has become the site of escalation and ‘targeted attacks’ on protesters
In recent weeks the Broadview facility has become the site of escalations by federal agents against protesters and journalists. Videos of agents deploying tear gas, pepper balls and roughly throwing protesters to the ground have gone viral, amidst the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
The Trump administration targeted Chicago with federal law enforcement starting in August, falsely claiming there had been a rise in crime in the city in recent years.
Since then, there have been increasingly aggressive reports of ICE enforcement in communities, including helicopters hovering over apartment raids. There have also been arrests of local officials and candidates for office who were protesting, including Illinois’ ninth congressional district Kat Abughazaleh, who went viral with a video of an ICE agent slamming her to the ground, Daniel Biss, the Evanston mayor, and a city alderman who were aggressively arrested while trying to advocate in a hospital setting.
Absolutely. This is the kind of force that a united resistance won’t even flinch at. They will get worse. It should be your goal to get them to be worse. The more desperate and frantic they get to try to put you down, the more that tells you that you’re winning. Authoritarians will never choose to stop fighting, ever. The cruelty is the point. Authoritarians can only win when people stop fighting, and their viciousness is intended specifically to make you stop. Comply or resist. Those are your choices, as stark as they are.