Anti-ICE mob turns hostile, breaching barriers outside detention facility — several officers injured
An anti-immigration enforcement protest outside an ICE facility in Chicago resulted in multiple officer injuries and nearly a dozen arrests as some attempted to breach security barriers, according to local reports.
Leftist protesters have been regularly gathering outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, since the Trump administration launched its immigration crackdown, Operation Midway Blitz.
'Womp womp, cry all you want. These criminal illegal aliens aren't getting released.'
On Friday, activists once again demonstrated outside the facility, protesting against ICE's enforcement efforts. Local reports indicated that this particular demonstration was more tense and volatile than those in recent weeks.
Local law enforcement officers worked to keep the road leading to the facility clear, confining protesters to designated areas. However, when some activists became violent and attempted to force their way into the street, officers began making arrests.
Videos captured by independent journalist Brendan Gutenschwager showed a line of Cook County sheriff's deputies attempting to keep protesters off the road. Several skirmishes between officers and protesters broke out, resulting in multiple detainments.
"Who do you protect? Who do you serve?" the crowd chanted.
Twenty-one protesters were arrested and four officers were injured, WLS-TV reported on Friday morning. Of those injured, two were police officers, one a state trooper, and the other a Cook County sheriff's deputy.
The local news outlet stated that Friday's protest was the largest one in recent weeks, noting that counter-protesters were also present.
"I have repeatedly pleaded to protesters to raise their voices, not their fists. They have chosen their fists. These out-of-towners have chosen to brutalize police officers who have been protecting their free speech and protecting them against assaults by ICE agents. We will see them in court," Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson stated.
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Border czar Tom Homan reacted to the Broadview protest.
"I was watching the videos before I came out here. When they put hands on law enforcement officers, they're getting arrested and going to jail," Homan told White House reporters on Friday. "You have a right to protest, but don't cross the line."
The crowd was estimated to be roughly 200-300 protesters.
The Department of Homeland Security posted about the protest on X, writing, "Womp womp, cry all you want. These criminal illegal aliens aren't getting released."
"Like clockwork, violent rioters have arrived at the Broadview ICE facility to demand the release of some of the worst human beings on planet earth," the DHS continued. "Get a job you imbecilic morons."
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'He's not that smart': Homan lampoons Chicago mayor for pleading with UN to intervene against ICE
Brandon Johnson, Chicago's Democratic mayor whose disapproval rating is over 60%, joined Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and other American leftists in complaining to foreign bureaucrats on Friday about the Trump administration's faithful enforcement of federal immigration law.
After detailing some of the ways that his "sanctuary city" has worked to undermine federal law enforcement initiatives, Johnson stressed to members of the United Nations Human Rights Council, "We cannot do this alone."
The 'United Nations is not going to tell President Trump what to do.'
"That is why I call on this council to hold the federal government of the United States to the same standards of accountability you apply elsewhere in the world," said Johnson, whose city has seen at least 368 homicides already this year. "No country should be above international law. Human rights are universal or they are meaningless."
When asked about Johnson's request that foreigners meddle in American politics, White House border czar Tom Homan told "The Big Weekend Show" that it "just proves he's not that smart."
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"Asking the United Nations to, you know, interfere with ICE enforcing U.S. law is like asking an arsonist how to stop a fire," said Homan. "The [International Organization for Migration], part of the U.N., helped fund the mass migration during the Biden administration's four years, spending millions upon millions of dollars helping that ... international migration coming to the United States."
Homan underscored that the "United Nations is not going to tell President Trump what to do. President Trump was put into office on the promise of making this country safe again, on the promise of having the historic deportation operation — that's exactly what America's getting."
'We live with the consequences of that moral failure every day.'
The border czar noted that in addition to making Americans safer by giving the boot to criminal noncitizens and securing the border, the Trump administration's clear messaging to would-be invaders that they're not welcome has also saved the lives of thousands of migrants who might have joined the multitudes who previously died trying to reach America.
In their campaign to protect the people of Chicago from the illegal aliens Johnson is apparently keen to harbor, ICE has caught numerous dangerous criminal noncitizens.
For instance, two days before Johnson's appeal to the U.N., ICE officers captured Alan Eduardo Garcia, an illegal alien from Mexico whose rap sheet includes arrests and convictions for felony strangulation, domestic battery, disorderly conduct, battery causing bodily injury, aggravated battery against a handicapped or pregnant woman, and unlawful use of a firearm, the agency claimed.
Among the other apparently dangerous foreigners ICE has captured in recent weeks was an illegal alien from Somalia who has convictions for multiple domestic assaults, rape, and multiple DUIs; a convicted murderer from Mexico; and multiple members of the terrorist gang Tren de Aragua.
Johnson suggested that the Trump administration's refusal to let the U.N. police its actions amounts to a "moral failure," adding that "we live with the consequences of that moral failure every day."
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JD Vance outduels the mainstream media yet again
In a recent interview on ABC’s “This Week,” a discussion regarding Trump’s border czar Tom Homan turned ugly when host George Stephanopoulos pulled the plug rather than let Vice President JD Vance continue speaking.
The pair were discussing a bizarre allegation that Homan was caught on tape taking $50,000 from undercover FBI agents “who were trying to entrap him because they were trying to get him on taking a bribe to give certain people government contracts.”
“It’s convoluted; it’s weird,” BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler says, before playing the clip of Vance and Stephanopoulos.
“I don’t know what tape you’re referring to, George. I saw media reports that Tom Homan accepted a bribe. There’s no evidence of that. And here’s, George, why fewer and fewer people watch your program and why you’re losing credibility,” Vance said.
“Because you’re talking for now five minutes with the vice president of the United States about this story regarding Tom Homan, a story that I’ve read about, but I don’t even know the video that you’re talking about,” he continued.
“You are focused on a bogus story. You’re insinuating criminal wrongdoing against a guy who has done nothing wrong instead of focusing on the fact that our country is struggling because our government’s shut down,” he added.
Vance went on to ask Stephanopoulos to “talk about the real issues” and explained that it would be much more beneficial for the American people instead of listening to the host go down “some weird left-wing rabbit hole where the facts clearly show that Tom Homan didn’t engage in any criminal wrongdoing.”
“It’s not a weird left-wing rabbit hole. I didn’t insinuate anything,” he said, before shutting down the interview.
“Thank you for your time this morning,” he said, while Vance continued to speak.
“Let me just tell you, as someone who interviews high-profile people on this show from time to time, if it is even so much as a lower-level member of Congress, you do not interrupt them,” Wheeler comments, shocked.
“Do you think George Stephanopoulos would have cut away from Kamala Harris while she was talking and not just speak over the top of her, but take her off the screen and turn it to a commercial break?” she asks, adding, “Can you even imagine?”
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