Chicago – The demonstrators tried to prevent vehicles on Friday outside a federal building to enforce immigration in the outskirts of Chicago, which led to a confrontation with the authorities who arrested three demonstrators and used a chemical agent to disperse the crowd.
Dozens of people carrying American flags and signs with the words “Hands Off Chicago” were in a migration and customs building in the United States in Broadview, about 12 miles (19 km) west of Chicago.
In a statement to Associated Press, Ice McLeulin Minister Tricia McLeulin said that three protesters were detained.
White clouds from a chemical agent led to the disintegration of the group, allowing access and departure, according to the video published by local TV crews.
André Vasquez, a member of the Chicago City Council in the protest, described him as “tear gas, a small pepper spray, a small mixture of both.”
The ice fired a New process This month, with a focus on traffic in migratory and Latin neighborhoods, and the suburbs of Chicago.
“They want us to be afraid,” Illinois Governor Juliana Straton, a democracy, told reporters at the scene of the accident. “They want us to go to our small corners and do not do anything … We will not let that happen.”
Cat Abu Ghazaleh, a candidate in the Congress who joined the demonstrators in several days, told the Union of dishes, that it was thrown on the ground by federal agents and struck the gas of tears as she and other demonstrators stood in the arm in front of a corridor, and prevented a car.
Abu Ghazial said that the officers had withdrawn one of her friends before others picked her and threw her on the sidewalk. Abu Ghazaleh said that the agents used tear gas and pepper, causing her eyes to run and throat.
“The demonstrators were completely peaceful,” she said. “We had no weapons, only signs and songs. We were afraid and angry.”
Meanwhile, Ice officials described the demonstrators as “rioters” and accused them of assaulting law enforcement, lowering car tires and closing the entrance to the facility. McLulin said that the local police refused to respond to multiple calls for assistance from the implementation of federal law.
Broadview is a two -storey building that has been used Temporarily Before being detained or deported. Its windows were covered with wood panels for weeks. The demonstrators gathered regularly, including Catholic nuns who pray During the celebrations.
Activists and Local leaders Recently, I went up to the increase in the decline to the increase in immigration factors in the Chicago region, with the aim of deterring agents, warning the population and maintaining attention to a A man was killed by the immigration officer last week.
The authorities said that the agents were following a man with a history of the reckless leadership who entered the country illegally. They said that Silverf Feljas Gonzalez escaped his arrest and withdrew an officer in his car. The government said that the officer opened fire because he feared his life.
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The Associated Press Ed White in Detroit contributed to this story.