Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson has signed another executive order that limits how people can protest at the Broadview ICE facility, which has been an area subject to protests for over a month.
Thompson has once again shrunk the area that protestors can gather at, no longer allowing protests to take place at 2000 S. 25th Ave.
The decision, made in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff’s Office, means protests are only permitted on Beach Street.
Critics online say the order sounds like a violation of the first amendment.
This comes a week after Thompson signed an executive order implementing a designated protest area outside of the Broadview facility and implemented a curfew limiting protest hours to 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Protestors have been arrested for not following these executive orders.
This action follows the Saturday night protest that resulted in 15 arrests. Thompson said that situation “degenerated into chaos.”
Others had different accounts of the Saturday protest, with Attorney Robert Held being seen at the protest telling Illinois State Police, “You have not accurately explained why you are doing this. This could lead to violence because you are being aggressive. You have weapons and you are advancing on peaceful protestors. This is inappropriate, this is illegal. This is violating our first amendment rights.”
