Broadview, Illinois (CNN) — Multiple law enforcement agencies are seemingly in a standoff with dozens of protesters Friday outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility near Chicago where Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was spotted today.
At least one person has been arrested for disobeying a police officer and resisting arrest after they were “sitting in the road and refused multiple requests to move and warnings,” according to a spokesperson for the Illinois State Police.
Broadview police officers and Cook County sheriff’s deputies holding a line near the large group of protesters were instructed at one point to put on gas masks.
The facility, about 10 miles west of Chicago, has been the site of demonstrations against ramped-up ICE enforcement and aggressive tacti