Illinois senator demands to meet with Ice amid clashes at immigration facility

Source: The Guardian

Sun 28 Sep 2025 13.03 EDT
Last modified on Sun 28 Sep 2025 16.08 EDT


After days of clashes between federal officers and protesters at an immigration jail in his home state of Illinois, Democratic US senator Dick Durbin on Sunday renewed demands to meet with Trump administration immigration officials.

Durbin wrote on X that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) must be “accountable for its actions” amid the administration’s “cruel immigration crackdown”. The post on Sunday morning came after Saturday night protests and arrests at an immigration detention center in Broadview, Illinois.

For the preceding few days, federal officials have arrested protesters at the Broadview facility as Ice operations have escalated in Illinois.

Durbin, along with Illinois representative Delia Ramirez and other Democrats, have been pressing for a congressional oversight visit to the Broadview facility for weeks in connection with reports of poor conditions.

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