ICE fires anti-crowd projectiles at Chicagoans aiming to shut down Trump's Midway Blitz

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: USA Today

Updated Sept. 26, 2025, 10:48 p.m. ET


BROADVIEW, IL — Around 200 Chicago-area protesters rallying against immigration enforcement endured a barrage of chemical agents and projectiles fired by federal agents on Sept. 26 outside the site at the heart of President Donald Trump’s crackdown.

The tense protest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility located in the Chicago suburb of Broadview comes over two weeks into Operation Midway Blitz, the White House’s effort to ramp up deportations in the longtime sanctuary city. Trump has repeatedly said the crackdown is aimed at "the worst of the worst" criminals who are immigrants.

But the president’s crackdown, which has seen one immigrant fatally shot by a federal agent, has sparked nearly around-the-clock protest at the facility located about 12 miles west of the Willis Tower.

"It feels like chemical warfare," Rickey Hendon Jr. told USA TODAY through a gas mask after a barrage of pepper balls fired by immigration agents. The Chicago-area tech worker said he was protesting against inhumane conditions reported at the deportation processing center. "This needs to be shut down."

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/09/26/chicago-resists-trumps-midway-blitz-ice-fires-projectiles/86376942007/

[mopinko]

1. they were saying they wd move out of this facility a few days ago, but

it wont help them. we’ll find out where they went and show up there.
our dem electeds have been front and center, and the protests have been nonstop.

this is the way.

[twodogsbarking]

2. We willl all bow down now and say the pledge of allegiance.

one nation, unintelligent, with liberty and justice not in sight.

[DBoon]

3. I honor these people for their bravery and persistance

[AverageOldGuy]

4. How long . . .

... before someone in the crowd fires back with live ammo?

[Exp]

5. Trump always does everything right.. ( heavy sarcasm) nt

[republianmushroom]

6. Republican American Gestapo, firing on US citizens.

Damn, who would have ever thunk it. But then who would have ever thunk 'American Gestapo'.

[wolfie001]

8. US version of Nazi Freikorps post WW1

Disgusting and anti-American. Racism and the fat orange imbecile are the fuel for all of this horseshit. Will Americans do the right thing next election? How many are not even paying attention or are sabotaging Democrats or sitting on their hands? Hope people do the right thing in 2026. Maybe a last chance to make a difference.

[C Moon]

7. Midway Blitz? What is this WWII?

[wolfie001]

9. We have a Dept. of War

This is RW christo-fascism. Complete lunacy.

[C Moon]

10. I guess we now know why Vance had that moment of faux anger:

they are planning on expanding their war on U.S. citizens aka voters.

[ificandream]

11. No question about it