From Fox News: The mayor of a small town outside of Chicago on Tuesday insisted her community doesn’t want National Guard troops deployed to the area after weeks of protesters clashing with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials.
Katrina Thompson, the mayor of Broadview, a village with a population of under 8,000 just west of downtown Chicago, held a press conference Tuesday about the federal presence in the town, emphatically saying, “We don’t want them here.”
“We don’t need them,” Thompson later told WLS-TV in an interview. “We can govern ourselves, and we have been doing that until this point.”
During her defiant press conference, Thompson had former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot standing up with her for support.
Broadview is the very town where a violent standoff broke out outside an ICE facility, with multiple rioters arrested and charged with assaulting federal officers.
However, Thompson claimed protesters had been “peaceful” and just fired off verbal insults at agents.
“That happens to me all the time, and I don’t go out and throw tear gas on people,” she sneered.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons fired back, telling Lyons in a letter, “You can either continue to be part of the problem or choose to be part of the solution by directing your police to enforce local ordinances and working with us to remove violent offenders.”
Acting ICE Director Lyons’ response to Broadview Mayor Thompson’s letter:
“You can either continue to be part of the problem or choose to be part of the solution by directing your police to enforce local ordinances and working with us to remove violent offenders.”
ICE will not… pic.twitter.com/zoPJkZ0Ffh
— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) September 30, 2025
CHICAGO — On Saturday night, federal agents arrested armed rioters Jocelyne Robledo and Ray Collins for assault at ICE’s Broadview facility.
They will be prosecuted and held accountable. Thanks to our partners at @ATF_Chicago, @CBP and @USMarshalsHQ.
We will not be… pic.twitter.com/dAHueKkNtC
— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) September 29, 2025
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