❓WHAT HAPPENED: Far-left activists are swarming Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vehicles outside an ICE detention facility in Broadview, Illinois.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Far-left protestors, DHS, ICE, federal law enforcement, and criminal illegal immigrants.
📍WHEN & WHERE: Friday, September 26, 2025, in Broadview, Illinois—a suburb of Chicago.
🎯IMPACT: In recent days, federal officials have constructed reinforced fencing around the facility—just west of Chicago—as an increasing number of violent leftist demonstrators have gathered in the area.
Far-left activists are swarming Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vehicles outside an ICE detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. In recent days, federal officials have constructed reinforced fencing around the facility—just west of Chicago—as an increasing number of violent leftist demonstrators have gathered in the area.
On Friday, the far-left activists—wearing gas masks and bandanas to obscure their faces—swarmed a DHS vehicle and attempted to block ICE agents from exiting the detention facility. In the latter case, a federal law enforcement agent positioned on a rooftop adjacent to the facility’s entrance fired tear gas to disperse the violent demonstrators.
BREAKING: Protesters attempt to block a vehicle driven by an individual that displayed a DHS badge from advancing towards the Broadview ICE facility pic.twitter.com/bdkbSYri9A
— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) September 26, 2025
Chicago has seen a sharp increase in ICE enforcement actions in recent weeks as part of President Donald J. Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz. The operation—centered around Chicago—focuses on migrants who have taken advantage of Illinois’s sanctuary policies to evade federal immigration laws. DHS specifically criticized Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) for shielding “criminal illegal aliens” and allowing them to remain on American streets.
The protests follow a deadly attack on an ICE field office in Dallas, Texas, earlier this week. According to authorities, 29-year-old Joshua Jahns, driven by far-left and anti-ICE ideology, opened fire on the ICE field office, spraying the building with bullets.
On Thursday, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel stated in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that Jahns, who fatally shot himself after the attack, “downloaded a document titled ‘Dallas County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management’ containing a list of DHS facilities,” and “searched apps that tracked the presence of ICE agents.”
