Protests took place Saturday again outside the federal immigration facility Broadview and sporadically throughout the Chicago area where ICE agents were seen working.
Federal agents were seen near Milwaukee Avenue and North Pulaski Road in the city’s Irving Park neighborhood.
Cell phone video captured Saturday showed a masked federal agent tossing tear gas, marking the fourth time this week federal agents have used chemical agents in Chicago neighborhoods.
Neighbors said families were nearby when the operation began and people with whistles ran to the area to alert the community of the agent’s presence.
“I run outside and see five ICE agents on top of one man,” a witness told NBC Chicago.
People in the area shouted at the masked federal agents to leave.
Video shows a woman be shoved to the ground as she approaches a federal minivan.
“This is absurd,” a witness told NBC Chicago. “Something has to give.”
Saturday’s clash between protestors and federal agents comes at a critical time for the Department of Homeland Security as a federal judge recently ordered U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino to appear in court next week.
The judge made the order Friday, one day after Bovino was accused of tossing tear gas into a crowd in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood after previous orders from a federal judge limiting tear gas use.
In Broadview, over a hundred protestors gathered in the evening to demand a stop to deportations.
“They are not criminals, they are human beings deserving decent treatment and respect,” a protestor, Joe Serio, told NBC Chicago.
Local police were able to handle and disperse the crowd in Broadview without using tear gas.
The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to NBC Chicago’s request for comment.
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