Demonstrators were hit by pepper balls and rubber bullets Monday during protests at ICE’s Broadview facility.

Daniel Schouse, a 36-year-old Palatine resident, was covered in white pepper ball powder by the afternoon, only to be hosed off by others with wipes and water bottles.

For the last several days, federal immigration agents have regularly used pepper balls and other chemicals as well as rubber bullets during demonstrations. The agents are firing the rounds as an attempt to clear protesters from ICE’s facility driveway so vehicles can carry agents and detainees.

Schouse took several hits as protesters stood on the sidewalk blocking cars from entering the facility temporarily, but always being fended back by agents shoving them out of the way or the pepper ball rounds.

But he and o

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