Federal agents hurled tear gas and pepper spray into a crowd of about 100 protesters who attempted to block vans from entering and exiting a U.S. Immigration and Customs holding facility in Broadview Friday morning.

Protesters flocked to the west suburban building, which has its windows and door boarded up, early in the morning to protest the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown known as “Operation Midway Blitz. ” The group chanted, sang and screamed at a group of agents in military fatigues and masks who walked back and forth on the building’s roof.

At around 8:30 a.m., agents threw multiple gas canisters and fired pepper-spray balls to disperse the crowd as a group of people were trying to block a van from leaving the building. Agents grabbed one man who appeared to

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