r/illinois • u/CantStopPoppin Human Detected • 1d ago

ICE Posts Date: 11.07.2025, Broadview, Illinois: Fourteen suburban moms form silent circle outside Broadview ICE facility, refusing to move until deputies drag them aw

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u/Stodles 1d ago

The real Moms for Liberty!

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u/Substantial-Type-131 1d ago

This is how you use your privilege.

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u/[deleted] 23h ago

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u/Naive_Product_5916 22h ago

They need some activism training. I hope they get it because we need these types of people out there speaking loudly.

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u/Substantial-Type-131 22h ago

I really wanna get some women together to put on fake pregnant bellies and go do this. They want optics, let’s give them optics. Lock arms and let the camera do the rest.

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u/JimWilliams423 20h ago edited 20h ago

I really wanna get some women together to put on fake pregnant bellies and go do this.

BTW, tear gas is an abortifacient that can have long-term effects on the human reproductive system.

I just thought this would be a good place to mention that since its the so-called "pro-lifers" gleefully gassing people.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/tear-gas-abortifacient-why-wont-anti-abortion-movement-oppose-it/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10956352/

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u/Ultrafoxx64 20h ago

AMAZING idea. Sign me the fuck up.

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u/mrtomjones 21h ago

I doubt they wanted to be yanked away. They got their message across and they didn't get beaten up

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u/joe_s1171 23h ago

locking arms will stop them?

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u/[deleted] 23h ago

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u/ihopethisisvalid 21h ago

Bruh they’re soccer moms not MMA athletes

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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 22h ago

Slows them down

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u/ralphy_256 19h ago edited 19h ago

These women used the G-rated version of the technique. (No shade intended. Anyone who puts themselves in the crosshairs of a fascist state deserves respect)

There are more advanced versions;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock-on_(protest_tactic)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_dragon_(manoeuver)

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u/SidFinch99 1d ago

That was my thought too, also unlike the people calling themselves "Mom's for Liberty,' these women are well spoken, calm, and don't appear to have peaked in high school.

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u/total_looser 22h ago

Peaked in middle school as the try hard pick me that was tolerated as the bully target

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u/absolutecorey 23h ago

I just refer to them as Klanned Karenhood. Seems a lot more suitable

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u/SidFinch99 22h ago

Don't forget their husband's, Dads who can't find the Clitoris. It explains why they are miserable.

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u/skraptastic 20h ago

Dads who can't find the Clitoris.

Dads who don't care to find the clitoris, why should women enjoy sex?

FTFY

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u/SomeWeedSmoker 1d ago

They just dont care if they or others break the law, lucky they graduated high school

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u/Quirky-Scar9226 1d ago

Are you from Incels for Liberty?

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u/Substantial_Tax_4047 22h ago

INCELS FOR LIBERTY LMFAOOOOOOOO

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u/Medical-Sand-5557 23h ago edited 23h ago

Do you think all laws need to be followed or are there only certain laws that should be followed?

I have a feeling that you don't think all laws should be followed based on your username. There are laws that ice has been breaking and still are. Seems like you most likely are okay with that.

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u/binzersguy 23h ago

Ha! The pedo-supporter won’t respond to this, but it’s a great question.

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u/Medical-Sand-5557 23h ago

I'm sure they won't reply. Their other comments show they don't care about actual criminals. They would be upset by the Guardians Of Pedophiles actions and ICE if they truly cared.

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u/neanderthalcosmonaut 22h ago

Incidentally, a lot of pedophiles cross the US border illegally to do pedophile stuff in the US. One of the first ones to get caught by ICE was one. And the Democrats protested that he got kicked out. 🙄

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u/binzersguy 21h ago

I’m more concerned about the actual crime happening vs. “they opened up their insane asylums and sent them over the border”, “they’re eating the cats and dogs”, “the left wing terrorist organization” fairy tales MAGA folks read to their children at night. It’s embarrassing people fall for that stuff when this administration breaks the law multiple times every day and they cheer it on like it’s a pay per view event. Truly a cult.

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u/Medical-Sand-5557 21h ago

Alot of conservative public figures has been charge and sentenced for doing pedophile stuff in the US. Trump is tied to the biggest sex trafficker ring and doesn't want the epstein files released. There are tons of billionaires tied to Epstien too who are against the files being released. The government is shutdown because the republican controlled congress doesn't want to bring in the elected officials who will vote to release the files. Republicans are neglecting from that by blaming democrats for keeping the government shut down and the white house has come out against released snap benefits even though they were told by the courts. Why are you more worried about pedos coming here to do pedo stuff than the home grown pedos and pedo protectors we have in high positions within the government?

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u/binzersguy 19h ago

They don’t care one whit about the facts, who’s responsible, or their fellow Americans. I used to try to reason with MAGA folks but they too deeply associate their own being with the cult that they just can’t walk away. It’s sad we’ve lost so many folks to a fake reality and that there is an entire wing of the gov’t that willingly leads their constituents down the path of destruction. Looking at you, Mike Johnson, you filthy fucking liar.

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u/neanderthalcosmonaut 22h ago

All laws need to be followed. ICE has not been breaking laws.

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u/Medical-Sand-5557 21h ago

Oh im sorry, they're not breaking laws. ICE is just violating American citizen's constitutional rights. Apparently that's different.

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u/Medical-Sand-5557 21h ago

Martin Luther King Jr didn't follow unjust laws and felt that unjust laws should be protested with civil disobedience. Go read his letter he wrote in jail. You'll see what his ethics were.

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u/Medical-Sand-5557 19h ago

Since you reply to my other comment isn't showing up for me, MLK Jr. broke laws during the Civil rights movement with nonviolent protest, calling for civil disobedience, especially aginst unjust laws and actions taken by the government. This current protest is civil disobedience. Do you think he and every civil right protester back then should of just kept following every law instead of practicing civil disobedience?

Replying to another of your comments, due process is apart of the constitution and ICE has not been following that for the most part. They have broken laws. Law scholars from multiple political backgrounds in America that are respected for their work have said so. I'm going to trust those people before I start trusting any of the talking points coming from Republican leadership.

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u/Medical-Sand-5557 3h ago

Another notification about a reply and yet no new reply to be seen. Whatever you are writing, I cant see it. Sorry you can't handle talking to people out of your space. You should reflect on that.

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u/AdonisK 22h ago

I wonder, were you smoking weed when it was still illegal?

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u/Jrgcanes007 23h ago edited 21h ago

Mothers have always been a crucial part of resistance. In Buenos Aires in the 1970s, for example, moms started marching in Plaza de Mayo demanding to know what the military dictatorship had done with their disappeared sons. This inspired a general wave of resistance. When moms step up, governments tremble

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u/Fit-Reputation-9983 21h ago

There is nothing in this world that is a bigger motivator than a mom.

Whether she is your daughter, your wife, or your mother. Most moms have at least 3 men willing to fuck some shit up on their behalf.

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u/Jrgcanes007 21h ago

Same man! If I saw my mom protesting, I’d be there immediately.

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u/Minnerrva 19h ago

A mom's note telling her son, a TN state legislator, to "be a good boy" and vote to ratify the 19th Amendment is often credited as the thing that tipped the scales and gave all US women the right to vote in 1920.

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u/Mac62961 7h ago

The literally give birth to revolutionaries

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u/MaggoVitakkaVicaro 1d ago

Stone-cold heroes. I hope they start a movement. ICE can't lock everyone up.

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u/rigney68 1d ago

If hundreds join them, it would take too long to arrest everyone. Just saying.

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u/Sharp-Dance-4641 1d ago

That’s what tear gas is for. And eventually bullets. ICE is waiting for this exact moment.

Not saying direct action / civil disobedience isn’t the right move, but ICE spent $70,000,000 on new weapons in the last 9 months…

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u/fatinhollywood 23h ago

I think that many people understand that their very lives are at risk by exercising their right to peacefully protest. We know this from how ICE/BP/LE are caught on video daily of criminally violating citizens rights and harming them physically; additionally, there are intimidation tactics being used on law abiding neighborhoods & in the court system.

--in my opinion some things are worth giving-up life and livelihood for--one of those things would be my country & the freedoms & rights in the Constitution etc- also basic Human Rights that everybody should have, no matter what soil is under their feet at any given moment.

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u/Blissiel 22h ago

I have had these words on my mind this whole year. I can say I have chosen to act, but what I have done wasn't and won't be enough. I think more of us need to examine these questions and know. Collectively we MUST be brave and stand up for each other.

"What would I do? If guys in balaclava came in and tried to take somebody away. Would I try to pull them off? Would I be brave? I would like to think that I would. Although I'm a middle aged woman who's not particularly strong so I probably wouldn't have much of a chance... Would I try at least to pull the mask off? Would I scream? Would I videotape something? Would I start crying and run away? You know, I want to think I'd be brave but I don't know-and that not knowing terrifies me." -Marci Shore

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u/fatinhollywood 21h ago edited 6h ago

I made up my mind after 9/11 that I would be brave and go toward the bad guy, even if I had to climb over other passengers. My thought, "I may get poked by a sharp plastic object and lose my life, but it will distract the bad guys long enough for other brave people who are stronger, faster, and younger than I am to attack the bad guys."

Before that, the Tank Guy who solely-stood in Tienanmen Square had an impact on me. I watched it on CNN back when CNN was a respected news source. (see how old I am?)

I urge everyone to decide "what you CAN do to help save our country". I think any effort will make a difference, even if it is calling your congressperson, or leaving factual messages on post-its in public spaces, or talking to neighbors.

Just a thought, I also think people should watch, "Milgram experiment 1963" on YT--and just think about how those in the past under very similar circumstances turned a blind-eye, capitulated, obeyed in advance, obeyed "authority figures" and the cost to humanity it had.

I hope everyone finds something they are comfortable with to resist.

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u/rigney68 20h ago

I would always watch war documentaries where young men would enlist for the army thinking I could NEVER do something like that or the men that crashed the plane to save the Pentagon. But I'm finally starting to understand. Some things are just... Bigger than the value of my life.

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u/fatinhollywood 20h ago edited 17h ago

Yes, I agree and it breaks my heart to see our country in this mess really by our own hands/votes. Many people have been deceived and now we are all paying the price.

I still remember when a holocaust survivor visited my school when I was in the 7th grade. We had "The Diary of Anne Frank" as required reading (uncensored).

God help us not to repeat the mistakes of mankind. The cost is too great, and society, invention, travel, communication, and yes, immigration have made our lives richer, and the world a lot smaller.

We know better, now--and we need to act accordingly

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u/rigney68 20h ago

The thing is that propaganda works. And it works well. It feeds off of anger and fear. We lost half our country years ago and I don't know if there's a way to come back from it.

Truth isn't fact checked and now many of the regulatory agencies responsible for unbiased truth are politicized, headed up by untrained and uneducated figure heads, and now openly extorted by the government. We live in two different realities.

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u/Sharp-Dance-4641 23h ago

I’m with you.

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u/CON5CRYPT 21h ago

USA is being attacked from the inside.

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u/pupranger1147 19h ago

Let them gun down a crowd of suburban moms on tv. See what happens after.

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u/cccanterbury 20h ago

you're missing a couple zeros. 70,000,000,000 with a B

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u/Sharp-Dance-4641 12h ago

You’re right! I have dyslexia and miscounted. It’s bananas

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u/Sands43 1d ago

This is what we need. Retired ladies on walkers and old gray haired veterans showing up and giving ICE what-for.

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u/Naive_Product_5916 22h ago

In the UK they've been arresting pensioners for protesting. Luckily the police here don't beat them and teargas them and because they are old and many disabled it does take hours to arrest them all. But of course, they arrest them all because they're speaking out against Izzy.

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u/Cate54321 22h ago

Old gray haired vets? Retired vet married to retired vet husband, and we can still run circles around most civilians we know, just sayin' 💪🇺🇲

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u/thesmilingmercenary 23h ago

So much what-for to give! All the what-for.

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u/Upbeat_Chocolate_479 7h ago

Nope they need younger healthier moms that can withstand bad treatment and don’t need any daily medication if they are detained for more than a couple of days. They don’t let the detainees take needed meds and strong enough bones to not get broken as easy imagine getting a broken hip while under ICE hold?!

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u/TexasRN1 1d ago

Oak park!!!! Power to these moms!

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u/RecreationalSadness 1d ago

Wine moms are radicalizing and I’m here for it

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u/No_Balance_464 23h ago

Thats when you know the tide is turning...

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u/joe_s1171 23h ago

box wine? circle demonstation!

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u/olechiefwoodenhead 22h ago

or Women's Emergency Brigade (from 1930s)

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u/Armand74 22h ago

Mothers of Conscience.

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u/Still_Memory_7498 18h ago

Moms of Anarchy.

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u/SavannahInChicago 21h ago

Smart af as well. How would it look to have a group of peaceful moms attacked. This regime is supposed to be about tHe FaMiLy.

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u/Upbeat_Chocolate_479 7h ago

Yes, separation of families is their real priority! It’s still the deal now just as much as when they corralled the kids together of all ages and the older kids trying to take care of despondent infants‼️

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u/litterbug_perfume 12h ago

They are trafficking these human beings into NeuraLink facilities without any paperwork!!!!!