FROM DAILY MAIL: A group of suburban moms were arrested in Chicago after peacefully protesting outside of an ICE facility.
The 14 women joined hands and sat in the street in front of the Broadview immigration processing center on Friday, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office.
With ages ranging from 23 to 59, they faced charges of obstruction and disorderly conduct for staging the sit-in outside of a designated protest zone.
‘We are here to stand with our friends and neighbors who have been abducted and terrified,’ said one mom.
Coming from Chicago’s suburbs, the moms railed against what they called out the Department of Homeland Security’s “campaign of chaos.”
According to the group of women, DHS is inciting fear in their neighborhoods so they wanted to use their “privilege as white women” to stand up for people targeted by them.
“Nothing is more important than the harm that is happening to people we have to get people’s attention to notice what’s actually going on,” Meg Thomas-Cary, a witness, told NBC Chicago.
“Someone sitting in the road is not doing harm, people being apprehended is harmful.”
DHS Assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin has denied that there is any inhumane treatment at the processing facility.
“Despite hoaxes spread by criminal illegal aliens, the complicit media, and now an activist judge, the ICE Broadview Facility does NOT have subprime conditions,” she said in a statement.”All detainees are provided with 3 meals a day, water, and have access to phones to communicate with their family members and lawyers.
“No one is denied access to proper medical care.”
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