Outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, more than four dozen ministers gathered to pray for the detainees inside — and the repentance of federal agents who arrested them — during a Friday morning worship service attended by a crowd of more than 200.

“In the name of all things holy and good, liberation must be attained. We left up a vision of compassion, mercy and love,” said the Rev. Jason Lydon of Second Unitarian Church of Chicago. “Mercy, we cry. Freedom, we seek. Justice, we demand.”

Clergy from different faiths hosted a liturgy or prayer service at the site each Friday during October, part of a growing movement of religious leader opposition to the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown . As the so-called Operation Midway Blitz ent

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