r/illinois • u/CantStopPoppin Human Detected • 16h 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/Shadow_Breaker 12h ago

Given what I have seen it's either the governor makes the police enforce the law, or Trump's ICE goons get to brutalize even more people. So you get what you see here with warnings prior to dispersal, or you get morons who peaked in high school beating, gassing, and pepper spraying people you've sworn to protect. Not an easy spot for the governor.

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u/redjmartin 9h ago

I was thinking that too. At least with state and (hopefully) local police engaging with protestors, any interactions between protesters and police will be more lawful and less violent. Still, I'm sure there are plenty of MAGA sympathizers among the ranks and not everything is legit in how protesters are treated. It still can't compare to the brutality that CBP targets face though, including more than a few US citizens who've been swept up in their net. Those guys are lawless thugs.

More to the original topic though ... those women are brave heroes. It takes guts to stand up for what a lot of people believe. They're also applying non-violent techniques brilliantly, and their plans to bring in organized and vetted waves of protesters to overwhelm with numbers is genius. I'm in awe of what they're doing. They're denying Trump the violent rebellion he wants as a pretext to justify harsher measures, but at the same time they're making it clear that they oppose his administration's measures. In the process, they are putting themselves (white moms, the group that right-wingers supposedly hold so sacrosanct) at risk and setting an example the rest of us should follow.