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More than a dozen people were arrested on Friday during protests at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in Broadview, Ill., a suburb of Chicago.

Just before 8 a.m. ET, approximately 250 anti-ICE protesters gathered outside the facility where Illinois State Police and the Cook Country Sheriff’s Office set up barricades to designate protest zones, Fox News observed at the scene.

Fox News observed agents firing pepper balls, tear gas and rubber bullets to clear crowds blocking federal operations.

Just hours later, tensions appeared to had died down significantly and police were no longer wearing gas masks.

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