U.S. Magistrate Judge Laura McNally has confirmed on the docket that the site visit at the ICE holding facility in Broadview went forward today. But there wasn't much for the public to see. @vimiller.bsky.social reports that attorneys were seen walking out, chatting and leaving.

They’ve said the same thing about ICE/CBP arrests, which have been proven to be lies. No reason to believe this is any different.

Multiple immigration agents detained a man on Wednesday outside Cook County’s main criminal courthouse on the Southwest Side in a chaotic struggle that broke a fence and left blood on the pavement, according to video footage provided to the Tribune by the Cook County Public Defender’s Office.

A Chicago attorney filed for a preliminary injunction challenging Broadview's protest restrictions near an ICE facility, arguing time limits violate First Amendment rights for working people.

The same folks denying thousands of people due process before their lives are changed forever ask for almost two months to get their own ducks in a row (judge said no).

Ellis says she plans to release her opinion in a week. She says she'd want the government to prioritize anything it cites (including video) and have it "reviewed by the following Monday so we can get it unsealed."

Now in the courtroom of District Judge Sara Ellis in Chicago for the start of a scheduled status hearing in the class action accusing federal immigration agents of abusing press, clergy and the public in the Chicago area. Ellis entered an injunction order limiting feds' use of force last week.

How convenient

Jesus Christ, I would have been fired into the sun by the US Attorney if I pulled this shit

“an estimated 60% of those who have been arrested under Operation Midway Blitz have been removed from the U.S. Plaintiffs assert that many class members are choosing to voluntarily depart to escape the unsafe and unsanitary conditions that they have been subjected to while in ICE detention.”

Bovino seems like he’s getting closer to admitting their entire premise is a lie, it has nothing to do with the law, and his mission is really about ethnic cleaning and terror.

The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

"Despite a Chicago police leader offering to clear a path" CPD is out here actively trying to help them and they still said fuck it, we just really need to throw this gas or Mr. Bovino won't play rock paper scissors with us tonight

NEW: DHS secretly obtained Chicago police data on 900 residents accused of gang ties. It was quietly deleted after intelligence officers violated rules against domestic spying. The handoff came well after city inspectors formally announced CPD's gang data was deeply flawed and infected w/ bias.

It appears Magistrate Judge Laura McNally has arrived for the morning's inspection, along with a team of attorneys. "Hold them accountable!" A protestor yells repeatedly. "They had a week to clean things up, remember that!" Another says through a megaphone.

Unemployment getting the same treatment as Covid deaths.

some great news despite the fact that she never should've been abducted in the first place—and the people who did it won't face any repercussions

New: Diana Santillana Galeano, whom federal immigration agents dragged out of a Rayito del Sol daycare on Chicago's north side last week, has been released from federal custody, the law firm HSPRD announced Thursday. The release states she will meet with Rayito del Sol parents on Friday.

You look for cracks everywhere to exploit against fascists. Period. I think some people seem confused about the state of things in this country.

Very on brand tbh.

now can we shut down Trump’s masked gangs disappearing people.

I’m still not clear — where have these emails been this whole time? Who had access to them? Why are they being released just now?

And Illinois State Police provides access to gang database info to DHS. In June, I found that DHS Enforcement and Removal Operations signed a data sharing agreement with ISP in *2024*. news.wttw.com/2025/06/02/i...

i feel like there’s going to be a slew of important people tomorrow and in the weeks to come claiming to have had a damascene experience in the midst of all this… and i think it’s good to establish up front and right away that all of those people are huge fucking liars.

Meanwhile, “did women ruin the workplace?”

I’m going to think about watching this moment unfold in real time for a long time. for all the horrors coming out of Chicago and its metro area, the principled courage of everyday people, in the face of such intimidation, never ceases to astonish. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/k...

absolutely cannot be stressed enough how incompetent and stupid these goons are. add the hundreds of detainees being released in Chicago today (& prolly more to come) because these morons were too dumb to think for a minute about what they were doing. self-defeating stupidity all the way down

I mean Megyn Kelly seems like exactly the right spokesperson for the ACTUALLY IT’S EPHEBOPHILIA movement. Shitty people, shitty values, shitty culture.

read the story bc the whole thing is nuts but this is 👀

Obviously corrupt on its face but even worse when you remember that Congress refuses to create a damages remedy for people abused by federal law enforcement, including ICE, and SCOTUS has narrowed the court-created remedy to almost nothing bsky.app/profile/atru...

'We will win': Six Broadview protesters plead not guilty to conspiracy, decry attack on First Amendment UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story w/ @tinasfon.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

I think I now have a much better understanding of why these dorks are so impressed by ChatGPT.

Do people remember that this same NYT reporter solicited a $30,000 donation from Jeffrey Epstein for a Montessori school and then got pushed out of the Times by Ellen Pollock shortly after? And he refused to share Epstein's contact info with another NYT reporter assigned to do the piece about him.

CPD’s gang database rears its head again. “Chicago’s sanctuary rules barred most data sharing with immigration officers, but a carve-out at the time for ‘known gang members’ left open a back door. Over the course of a decade, immigration officers tapped into the database more than 32,000 times.”

This is absolutely the tactic. So many arrests were just someone taking a step over a line, or not knowing new rules the cops just made up, or at curfew, cops targeting protesters who were mouthy earlier in the day. Or no apparent reason at all. Prosecutors really should drop all of these.

"We are seeing the Trump administration violate the constitution and violate our human rights," Sharp said. "These criminal charges will not silence us from speaking out against this injustice."

Honestly just absurd charges. Absolute worst case here, they joined dozens of other people in making a car drive slower than it might have done otherwise. Meanwhile, our entire federal government is run like a cartel.

Outside Chicago's federal courthouse, a small rally is still underway in response to the arraignment hearing today for the "Broadview Six." One of the six, Joselyn Walsh, leads a small group in song with her guitar; nearby, codefendant & IL congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh speaks with press.

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Next hearing date is set for Dec. 4, in front of District Judge April Perry. With that, court is adjourned.

More in Chicago ICE legal news today: District Judge Jeremy Daniel has ordered the govt to provide Diana Patricia Santillana Galeano, whom ICE agents dragged out of a Rayito Del Sol daycare on Chicago's north side last Wednesday, with a bond hearing "on or before" Nov. 18.

Mecklenburg had also argued that the passport requirement has been extremely common throughout her career. Parente: "I highly doubt that she's charged a case like this before."

McShain on the feds' request that Straw turn over his passport: "I'm not going to require it."

Chris Parente, attorney for Brian Straw, objects to his client turning over his passport. The reason Straw went to Broadview, he says, is the feds' "demanding of passports … for people who appear to be a certain skin color."

Straw believes that landscapers detained by the feds "can't stand up to the government," Parente says. "Mr. Straw can. And your honor can."

McShain just went over conditions of release for Michael Rabbitt and Kat Abughazaleh. The judge didn't give details (she cited paragraph numbers in a release form), but they include an unsecured $4,500 bond.

Judge McShain makes it clear she'll be taking the defendants' pleas today, as well as going over the penalties they face. For the conspiracy and impeding charges each of the six defendants face, they each face up to seven years in prison. All six plead not guilty to all charges.

Kat Abughazaleh is sitting in a 10th floor courtroom at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse ahead of the arraignment of her in others in this case. Waiting on U.S. Magistrate Judge Heather McShain.

Now in the courtroom in Chicago's Dirksen Federal Courthouse, waiting for the Broadview Six's arraignment hearing to begin. The courtroom is packed with press and observers.

Cat Sharp (pictured here, left, in the olive pants and jacket), who besides her Chicago 40th Ward position is also running to be a Cook County commissioner, has her own dedicated group of supporters present. "Show up for Sharp," they chant.