Emotions have also been running high outside an ICE processing facility in west suburban Broadview.
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 4:18PMBROADVIEW, Ill. --Tuesday, ICE agents erected a fence outside the boarded up building, citing safety.It's been a volatile time for those who live near this ICE facility in Broadview.
"It's just been crazy just seeing people I've never seen going back-and-forth, going this way," Edna Lewis, who lives nearby, said. "They're going that way." "It's been a little bit crazy little chaotic you know cars have been parking here and there," Tom Johnson, who lives nearby, said. Tom Johnson, who lives on the other side of 25th Ave., says people have been parking illegally on their residential street and swarming the facility. Protesters were back out Wednesday morning, holding signs and making noise when ICE vehicles exit from the fence.Chicago federal intervention: Tracking surge in immigration enforcement operations | Live updatesThe Broadview Fire chief sent a letter to DHS demanding it remove the fence that was illegally set up Tuesday on a public street.The letter said, "In case of fire or other emergencies at businesses located on the street, Broadview Fire apparatus would be unable to use the road to access these businesses.""I'm worried about that too because my husband is in the hospital now and he keeps going back for seizures, so I'm very concerned if they'd be able to come and not park way back because of the cars out there," Lewis said. "I think they're doing their own thing now and taking over," Johnson said. "That's a city street and they can't just put up a fence like that, but they're doing it." ABC7 has not heard back from ICE or the Department of Homeland Security, following that letter from the Broadview Fire Department.
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