BROADVIEW, Ill. (WLS) -- The Broadview Fire Department is demanding that a fence installed around an immigration processing facility be removed.

The acting fire chief said on Tuesday night that Immigration and Customs Enforcement illegally built the fence on a village road and that it could block firefighters' access to areas on that street in the event of an emergency.

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The new fencing went up after days of protests over the Department of Homeland Security's immigration operation "Midway Blitz."

Some of those protests have turned violent. A handful of protesters remained outside the Broadview processing center on Tuesday morning, and some of them said the fencing went up around the facility in the middle of the night.

"It's dist

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