On Sept. 19, 2025, a protest outside the ICE Broadview Processing Center in suburban Chicago escalated from chants to confrontation. Demonstrators blocked access roads, vandalized federal vehicles, and clashed with agents. Seventeen protesters were arrested in the first week, and within days a perimeter fence went up — not to hold detainees inside, but to protect federal officers from fellow citizens. The image was striking: a government fortifying itself against its own people in order to carry out the law.
