After Week of protests According to officials, outside the power of the US immigration and customs support in Broadwear.
At the request of the police, Broadwall, the Illinois Police and the Office of the Sheriff of the County Cook – with the help of state and district emergency agencies – established a “unified command” outside the holding facility, according to the press release of the state on Thursday.
The united team establishes the appointed regions “where people can safely exercise their rights”, according to the state police. According to the state police card, the areas extend on both sides of the scourge -cutting down to Lexington Street with a security alley in order to provide access to emergency vehicles. The map also shows an additional designated “limited zone” along the existing fence outside the object.
Last week, federal officials established a fence outside the building, referring to the need for public security. In turn, officials of BroadView demanded that the Ministry of Internal Security Remove the fence. In a letter to DHS, he acts as the head of the fire department by Broadway Matthew Martin, said that the fence was built without permission along the public street near the facility on the 1930 beach street, blocking the fire department to the road.
According to the state police, officers in the form will go on the spot to the appointed areas. According to the state police, the purpose of the combined command is to “protect the health and safety of all people, including nearby residents and enterprises of Broadway, as well as to ensure a peaceful expression of the rights of the first amendment.”
The state police cannot be immediately achieved for further commentary.
Governor J.B. Pritskrara, chief of staff of Ann Kaprara, said during a political event on Thursday that the decision to create a protest area was made in response to the escalation of the conflict between federal employees and protesters in BoadView last weekend and more and more aggressive tactics from agents in the ice faculty, including the Pepper ball. Shot in a television reporter in her carField
State and local officials act regardless of the constant lack of communication by the federal government, which sharply contrasts with past events that attracted much larger protests, including last year's national Convention of the Democratic Party.
“We spent a year, for a very many year, meeting with the FBI, meeting with the secret service, meeting with DHS, meeting with the state police, meeting the Chicago police to make sure that this event was safe, and then people were able to protest and exercise their constitutional rights,” said Capara.
Kat Abugazale, a candidate in the North and Northern suburban 9th district of Congress, which for several weeks visited protests at the BroadView facility, refused to directly say whether she protested outside the zone on Friday, but used an exemption to describe it.
“The meaning of the zone of freedom of speech is that the rest of the zone does not include freedom of speech,” she said on Thursday in a short phone. According to her, the 26-year-old progressive commentator and the Content Content planned to hold a press conference at the facility on Friday morning to rally elected officials and demand that the barrier be removed.
Chicago Tribune Reporter Olivia Olander contributed.
