Chicago – It became an independent building in a small suburb of Chicago the front line of A. Federal immigration campaignWith increasing accusations that the facility that aims to treat detainees is an actual detention center that suffers from inhuman conditions.
Trump’s administration has Targeted The Chicago area of the latest migration migration is nominated Hundreds of arrests In the past three weeks.
Relatives, lawyers and activists are concerned about immigrant novels about what is happening as soon as they are inside the brick building in Broadview. Once the routine protests are planted outside the building in recent weeks, as Federal agents use chemical factors and physical strength to Pay the demonstrators behind.
Defenders say up to 200 people are being held there at one time, with some hold up to five days in an area that does not contain showers or cafeteria. Immigrants report that they get a little food, water and limited access to medications. Communication, including lawyers, is limited.
“It is a black hole,” said Erandira Rindon of the Resurrection Project, who received requests for legal assistance from about 250 migrants. “You can’t contact the center. You can’t talk to anyone.”
The United States of the United States of Migration and Customs have not responded to many requests about the center in recent weeks, including Thursday, and have rejected the requests for tours. While the agency publishes the number of people in detention centers, the BroadView processor is not included.
BroadView, one of the suburbs of about 8,000 people, was a site for the Federal Immigration Center for decades. It is located along an industrial pass, and the facility was repeatedly pushed Peaceful protests And it becomes a scene of tears before the people are deported.
But the questions surrounding their use have grown since President Donald Trump returned to the White House, promising to collective deportation.
Illinois is among the strongest strict resort laws in the country, with the exception of cooperation on a wide range between local police and federal immigration agents, including detention.
The state prohibited the detention of immigration actually in 2021, when End the local cooperation agreements Between the federal government and the province’s prisons. Illinois Prevented In 2019, after failed attempts to build a new detention facility and there are no federal immigration detention centers in the state.
Illinois officials have claimed months ago that immigrants were held at the treatment center for several days and asked for sleep on floors, including bathroom.
MP Jesus “Choi” Garcia was part of a group of Democrats in Illinois who tried to take a tour of the facility in June.
He said: “We have indicated that this was a center of treatment, but in reality, the people who were protesting there for several days participated with us that it is actually a detention center.” “It is not enough to be a detention center.”
Brenda Perez said her husband was arrested this month by ice agents on the southern side of Chicago while he was going to work as a mechanic. In the end, she confirmed that he was in Broadview when she saw it on a video of the social media that was filmed outside the center.
In brief calls, he told her that he could not sleep because there are many people who lie down. It was mentioned that going 24 hours without food and receiving one bottle of water.
She was crying, “He would have pleaded with food and water because he was very hungry and thirsty and they would ignore it.” He was later transferred to Michigan Prison.
An advocates of immigrant rights also claim that the Trump administration is trying to make the conditions unbearable so that people agree on Self -reporting. The authorities are trying to do so Expanding the detention space In the province’s prisons, collaborators in the neighboring Kentucky, Weskonsen and Indiana.
Giselle Maldonado, 23, said that her uncles were held at the Prodivio facility for two days last week before being deported to Tijuana, Mexico.
Maldonado described the circumstances as “ugly”, and contributed to quickly signing the deportation papers instead of defending themselves.
She said, “He was crowded.” “They will not feed them properly. Water will not get them when they asked for water. These bright lights were on 24/7, and they could not sleep.”
The center created a headache for village leaders. While society is about 12 miles from a small Chicago, its work can draw up to 55,000 workers.
The 25 -person Broadview Police Force is converted to the center to help manage protests.
Tensions are strained in recent weeks. The demonstrators prevented vehicles, and the Federal agents responded to aggressive tactics, including the spread of chemical factors and physical strength. Roop -roof gunmen.
“We have this processing center in our town and creates fear,” said the mayor of Prodivio Katrina Thompson.
The Ministry of Internal Security defended its tactics, noting a threat to federal officials and the description of the detainees as “rioters.”
Federal officials initially gave Thompson A. attention The center will be used as the “basic processing site” of the process. But communications have been limited since then, including the requests that were ignored to inform them if chemical factors were used.
Federal officials climbed windows on the building, prompting the city’s reviews of construction symbols. After the protests became tense, the federal authorities set up a fence that extends to a public road.
Village officials demanded that the illegal “built” fence regarding security concerns about the fire department. He remained in place on Thursday.
The Mexican Consulate Office is among the few entities in communicating with the authorities that oversee the Broadview facility. They have helped the Mexican citizens protesting medicine.
Ambassador Reina Torres Mendeville, the Consul General of Mexico in Chicago, refused to discuss specific details, citing a diplomatic operation. But she said that the circumstances of the enforcement of the widespread immigration Fear Among the Mexican citizens are unprecedented.
“The suffering we see is great,” she said.
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Christine Fernando, the Associated Press correspondent, contributed to this report.