Following weeks of increasingly tense protests at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in suburban Broadview , village officials on Saturday said ICE was retaliating against the suburb and its residents because the mayor asked the federal agency to stop “making war on my community.”

In a statement released Saturday morning, village officials urged residents to stay out of harm’s way and “take all necessary precautions to protect themselves and their families” from ICE.

The statement followed a letter sent Friday by Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson to a Department of Homeland Security field office director that said ICE was endangering residents, police officers, firefighters and “American citizens exercising” their First Amendment rights as ICE repeatedly

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