Happening now: at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago, Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino and other CBP/ICE agents emerge to patrol Beach Street and escort a vehicle out. They ordered people out of the street, walked to the end of it and then back to the fence.

In Franklin Park, IL this afternoon— Across the street from where ICE shot and killed Silverio Villegas González two weeks ago, a small gathering is ongoing. Folks are cleaning up the memorial site. An organizer tells us people have been periodically damaging it and breaking candles.

Also, recall on Election Day 2024, a Trump flag was on display at the Melrose Park police department. They aren’t exactly subtle about their allegiances.

Many folks have messaged us about looking into these local PDs working with ICE. Without a paper trail, it is difficult to prove collaboration. What isn't difficult to prove is there's obviously implicit permission; police loyalties always lie with other police. No official welcome mat necessary.

It's not a coincidence that Melrose Park PD already has blotter page of migrants they've arrested at traffic stops for vehicle violations. This is but one extension of police terror against immigrants in Cook Co. burbs. MPPD also flew a Trump flag outside their station after he won the election.

🦗🦗🦗

But don’t call them nazis or gestapo.

Border Patrol vehicles were also seen in the village square shopping center parking lot in Broadview this morning. There's a Home Depot in this plaza.

Border Patrol is up. Neighbors have sighted them driving around Melrose Park, Stone Park, and Maywood—all near west suburbs surrounding Broadview.

With ICE/CBP still firing into the lot from the west gate, agents then *also* come up along the side fence and fire directly at two journalists clearly not interfering with their activities in any way, sheltering themselves from munitions

This is the CEO version of “just following orders.” They pretend they have no agency because to admit otherwise is to admit to complete moral bankruptcy.

In history class, if you ever saw yourself as an administrative worker in a concentration camp, now is your chance.

News --> Steve Bannon tells me he fully expects Trump to use the Texas ICE office shooting as the hook to unleash law enforcement on liberal immigration groups by connecting political violence to anti-ICE rhetoric. This is going to get ugly. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2009...

trying to imagine this and can’t

“The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers” apnews.com/article/fbi-...

Chicago journalists exposed ICE's excuses for killing Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez as lies. Remember that when they claim they're shooting journalists for obstructing them. The truth is an obstruction for these people, and telling it anyway is a public service.

Well don't I feel stupid

Nothing will put me back into a cheerier mood than the combination of Star Wars, Eric Adams, and New Yorkers believing garbage cans are an emerging technology.

looking at the constitutional crisis in the rear view mirror

It won't mean much, but: got the fucker who did it

An ICE agent primes and points a taser at a protester and property owner, after another agent attempted to chase after another protester through yards outside the Broadview ICE facility. The person they were chasing got away and the agent chasing sustained a leg injury.

Small update: I am fine and exhausted and very grateful for everyone who helped me and documenting what was happening to everyone in attendance 🖤

This is an unmasked photo of 7880 (middle) from ~2018. If anyone has any information about this agent (or frankly, any other ICE agent currently operating in Chicago), my Signal is @tpf.99.

ICE also shot Leigh in the face today:

The Feds lost Peanut

Any Chicagoan who pays attention to local politics could name the four alders without even looking. The grossest members of city council: Raymond Lopez (15th) Nick Sposato (38th) Anthony Napolitano (41st) James Gardiner (45th)

It is not in any way "worse" when cops assault journalists instead of protesters. It's all the same violence; it's all wrong and horrific. What's notable is the intentionality behind what happened today, esp when paired with DHS accusing anyone recording their activities of intimidating *them.*

Please be sure to read the detailed alt text. We can do it when not also under fire in a cloud of tear gas. 🙃

Can’t find my video rn but at one point a woman in a silver car drove in the lot to get to her work at a business that uses the same lot. I could see that she was terrified as ICE agents fired pepper balls at protester next to her vehicle with absolutely no regard for her.

Hi, just a note— The local ICE/ERO agent directing his team to fire at reporters' faces in Chicago this morning has been threatening press since we showed up at immigration court in June. His agents shot us both at close range last week, too. None of this started today!

ICE making new enemies everywhere they go.

“Beleaguered Broadview residents are begging for relief from your center’s siege of our neighborhood,” she wrote in the letter. “They are texting me. They are calling me. They are streaming into Village Hall looking for help.”

Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district. The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps." www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

lol I almost joked yesterday that this was just for a photo opp. close.

i am very tactical

Yep. They just made themselves more visible and disruptive to the community. Weird move considering it was complaints from tenants and residents in the building where they lease a couple floors for immigration court that essentially got them booted.

Good thread surveillance tech

ICE is firing pellets and pepper balls at journalists in Broadview outside Chicago today, but they're local journalists so it feels like the national media will not care at all. I hope I'm wrong.

Once again we saw 7880 today. He was behind the fence giving orders to the masked, unidentified men deploying chemical agents against protesters.

In hindsight, I’d guess the reason ICE did this was to draw protesters into the lot and away from the busy road so they could more easily unload their chemical weapons, causing most of the crowd to disperse, so there would be few people left when their cars returned.

it’s an old-fashioned standoff now. occasionally, federal agents will push forward to part the crowd + allow a vehicle driven by ice to enter the parking lot off 25th street. but for the most part, they’re just staring. there are maybe 10-15 protesters still here and probably twice as many press.

Never leaving this app

Some protesters are throwing plush toys at ICE vehicles as they drive through the crowd.

A few dozen protesters at 25th and Harvard are walking back and forth across Harvard where ICE vehicles are now entering and leaving. As a couple ICE vehicles depart, Broadview PD clears a path for them.

At the Broadview ICE "processing facility" outside Chicago this morning. Protesters here for this morning's action are gathering off 25th now that Beach has been fenced off. A pair of men peering through the fence at ICE vehicles shout, "Get the fuck out of Chicago, you terrorists!"

frogs using humans as a cautionary tale about the dangers of threats that arise gradually rather than suddenly

It all makes sense now

Surprising that people granted anonymity and the authority to abuse people without any hint of accountability would behave this way. Unheard of in human history.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Update on this: The City of Evanston isn't waiting for Flock to take the cams down, and staff have covered them up with bags and tape. Writing up a quick story to post before I go do (another!) citywide site visit to confirm all are covered (Picture taken yesterday by @joergmetzner.bsky.social)